What is it about?
This article examines the controversies in psychology and in law around the status of recovered memory and examines how the courts in the United States have dealt with these issues.
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Why is it important?
This article is one of very few dealing with the admission of expert evidence on recovered memory from an international comparative perspective. It makes proposals for how the Irish and English courts might approach this very topical issue.
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I hope this article makes people think about the importance of courts really scrutinising the scientific and social underpinnings of knowledge about recovered memories in order to try and do justice to victims and to accused persons.
Sinead Ring
University of Kent
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This page is a summary of: Due process and the admission of expert evidence on recovered memory in historic child sexual abuse cases: lessons from America, The International Journal of Evidence & Proof, January 2012, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1350/ijep.2012.16.1.392.
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