Evaluating the Authenticity of Crime-Related Amnesia

Offenders' Memories of Violent Crimes

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 215-233

  Jelicic, Marko ^a   Merckelbach, Harald ^a  

^a MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Crime related amnesia; Memory loss; Radical emotional state; Symptom validity tests; Violent offenders

Indexed keywords

EID: 69849103788     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470713082.ch9     Document Type: Chapter

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