Blog

Two components of the presumed child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS) are the denial of abuse and recantation of abuse. Researchers who analyzed actual interviews with sexually abused children found that, in reality, the denial and recantation of abuse:

Suggestive questioning of children is most likely to _____, and can lead to _____ prompted by repetitive questions.

According to the text, forensic experts testifying in court often cannot provide scientific data about error rates. Instead, they are more likely to invoke their:

Unlike other polygraph tests, the guilty knowledge test (GKT):

The main similarity between Bertillon’s anthropometry and modern biometrics is that both:

According to the text, children who supposedly suffer from child sexual abuse accommodation syndrome (CSAAS) are likely to show behavioral symptoms that could also be evident in children misled into admitting such abuse. The following symptoms are believed to be part of the CSAAS syndrome, EXCEPT:

Legal realists:

According to the text, the use of anatomically detailed dolls when interviewing children under the age of 6 is likely to _____ the number of false allegations of sexual abuse.

There are several vulnerabilities to making a false confession. The most dangerous vulnerability, according to the text, is:

Killers that tend to be more impulsive and select victims more randomly are referred to as: