The "false memory" defense: Using disinformation and junk science in and out of court

Journal of Child Sexual Abuse

Volumn 9, Issue 3-4, 2001, Pages 53-78

  Whitfield, Charles L ^a  

^a Box 420487 ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

"False memory"; "false memory" defense; Child molesters; Child sexual abuse; Disinformation; Dissociative amnesia; Enablers; Pedophiles; Traumatic amnesia

Indexed keywords

AMNESIA; ARTICLE; CHILD ABUSE; CRIMINAL BEHAVIOR; LAW SUIT; PEDOPHILIA;

EID: 0035727775     PISSN: 10538712     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1300/J070v09n03_04     Document Type: Article

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