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In Youth on Trial, a wide range of leaders in developmental psychology and law combine their expertise to investigate the limitations of our youth policy—including the problematic trend of trying alleged juvenile criminals as adults.
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Once Again, the Grisso Approach is Most Thoughtful.......2003-06-24
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A Valuable Collection.......2001-12-20
For anyone interested in how courts deal with juvenile crime, and for anyone who thinks there must be a better way, read this book. Drawing upon the simple, yet profound idea that children do not turn into adults on a single day, the authors elaborate on the deficiencies of a legal system that is, in fact, largely based upon just that notion. The chapters help us to envision a legal system that would see adolescent development as a gradual and continuous process, and that would not allow prosecutorial ambition alone to determine which young offenders should be held criminally responsible for their actions.
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Making the Best Child Custody Decision.
To truly address the child's best interest, decisions awarding custody should be based on the best possible information. In this essential book, leading child development researchers, legal professionals, and clinicians analyze the legal status of empirical studies, the role of psychological testing, and the evaluation and proper use of scientific evidence.
The authors present current research on topics including evaluating and using child witnesses, the problems of stepfamilies, handling sexual abuse allegations, the impact of divorce on infants and very young children, and the special custody issues raised by medically ill children and adolescents. Lawyers, judges, custody evaluators, social workers, psychologists, policymakers, and parents can use this book to understand the tangle of information and concepts involved in child custody decisions.
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Imperative Reading for Clinicians Involved in Custody Work.......2000-06-11
This is a comprehensive and much-needed compilation of material for the custody evaluator. The authors provide an unbiased review of the research literature, clarifying the validity of assumptions regarding parent effectiveness, visitation schedules, and children's adustment to divorce. They point out the importance of considering context and individual dyads rather than relying on broad-based conclusions generated from any particular study. They have covered a breadth of topics, beginning with legal and ethical issues, relevant child development and adjustment issues, and psychological testing. Among other topics included are "the remarriage family," adopted children, medically ill children, and children of gay and lesbian parents. This work can be a useful reference for clinicians working with children of divorce, but for those performing custody evaluations it should be required reading.
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Child Mental Health and the Law
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A Conundrum.......2000-10-04
Dr. Nurcombe has presented a compassionate, well-thought-out review of the relationship between mental health and the legal system. These two are often at odds with each other, though the ultimate aim is of course to protect both the patient and the public from his/her illness. I have worked with Dr. Nurcombe in Burlington, Vermont USA on the Vermont Infant Studies Project, and am aware of his sensitivity and kind heart. These qualities are evident in all of his work, and though I have not read other books to compare with this one, I found it most rewarding.
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For everyone responsible for the well being of children, this book explains one of the hardest to detect threats to their safety.
Female sex offenders have victimized an estimated two to three million people in the United States. As a society we find it nearly impossible to believe that females, usually seen as nurturing, are capable of sexual abuse.
The result is that, each year, hundreds of thousands of youth are not protected, not believed, and not treated for the trauma associated with the abuse. Through her detailed analysis of the currently available literature and her own research, Dr. Hislop describes what is known about female sex offenders: identification of abusers, estimates of the number of abusers and victims, the methods of abuse, the types of trauma seen among their victims, and what is known about the developmental histories of female sex offenders.
She also provides therapists with directions for treatment and prioritized treatment goals, including exploring the victimization and patterns of offending, the relationship between the offender's own victimization and her offending, precursors to offending, and methods to stop offending.
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fascinating study.......2006-11-16
Many people talk about how bad it is when girls are molested by men... "oh how terrible, what a creep, they should lock him up and throw away the key", etc. Very little is said about female offenders and their victims however, particularly when the victims are teenaged boys. Hislop, who is a practicing therapist makes such oversights much more difficult given the evidence she presents in this study which is written like a scholarly monograph. She references many professionals who are specialists in the field and also presents results from studies of her own.
I didn't read this entire book cover to cover, because parts of it are written more for practicing threrapists, particularly the last part. Much of the book however is accessible to the average educated person. A lot of interesting results were presented. Based on other things I've read and heard, much of the information in this book is not new, but some of it however is quite shocking.
I already knew that female offenders tend to come from chaotic or dysfunctional backgrounds where alcoholism, drug abuse, physical/sexual abuse is the norm. It's also relatively well known that women from such backgrounds tend to select life partners who will re-activate this chaos, if they select a "good guy" however they will do something in their relationship to sabotage it (i.e. commit incest, abuse their kids, cheat, abuse drugs/alcohol, etc.).
Some of the interesting information which I didn't know are the following assertions, which has been confirmed by professionals in the field:
-Men who were incest victims by their mothers tend to suffer from serious psychosomatic symptoms and depression as adults, social dysfunction and are hindered in cognitive development.
-The majority of serial rapists have had sexual contact with grown women as children/adolescents.
-Rapists are sexually victimized more by females than males.
So many people think that boys who are victimized by grown women are lucky. After reading this book, we learn that boys who are victimized by women are hardly lucky. And the women who victimize them... they more often than not are complete messes socially and mentally.
The laws need to be re-written.......2006-09-29
The same way laws have bee redefined for females when they came into the workplace so it is true for this issue.
Females have always raped males.
All the reasons have already been stated on why women get away with this so I wont revisit.
suffice it to say that many female students love to have affairs with their male teachers but it doesnt make it right.
But the religious aspect of female virginity etc clouds our way and while religion wont change we can.
RAPE IS RAPE
Female Sex Predators Is Nothing New... Just IGNORED!.......2006-05-17
A GREAT Journalist, Patricia Pearson has touched on this subject as well. Overwhelming fact, in virtually all rape, or any other type of sexual assault perpetrated by females... is not taken seriously, turned into a case of "little child (boy) gets "lucky"?, and the ultimate belief of "women don't ever rape" seems to prevail. WHY? Because the authorities, judicial, and medical arenas FAIL TO DOCUMENT, REPORT, OR PERSUE CRIMINAL CHARGES/ACTION AGAINST THE FEMALE PERPETRATOR. Instead, it is routine that authorities will try find any male present to inflict blame. A neighbor, distant friend, the person calling in the crime to authorities, or any other innocent bystander-- any one of these males WILL BE BLAMED-- virtually all cases involving female crimes. Not to mention the slew of excuses any female can utilitize on any given moment(court trial) to get off the hook... COMPLETELY.
In MOST cases involving female perpetrated crimes (this also includes domestic violence), is down played to a lesser crime sentence/charge, or simply dismissed.... Unless of course the criminal offense can be passed onto a male for ANY given reason.
Stop with the misguided ultra-feminist male-hatred ideology. Women are just as competent to commit a crime, sexual assault. Pull your heads from the sand. Next time, listen and believe your young child when he comes up to you and says "she touched me where I go potty"... Don't beat him or accuse him of lieing... Women are quite capable, and it certainly does happen more often than what YOU would like to believe.
Very enlightening.......2006-03-17
This book is very well written and researched and I liked Ms. Hislop's factual style of writing. Not far into the book it suddenly struck me as odd that there is so much effort in understanding female sex offenders, but I do not see this same attempt at understanding male offenders ... they just go straight to prison. Is it not possible that they may also be suffering from some childhood trauma done to them or are in other ways in great need of psychological help. Maybe someone could write a book about that.
More people should read this book........2002-12-22
I found this book to be very well researched, and thorough. I believe that his contains new information that is helpful to helping both victims and offenders. It is a shame that more people in positions that deal with victims or offenders have not read this book.
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Mandatory Reading for Social Workers.......2002-03-27
Speaking as a child abuse defense attorney, life would be much easier if social workers would learn the mistakes they can make resulting in false disclosures of child abuse. My job would be much easier if the results of these interviews were more reliable. This book shows how and why social workers need to use proper interview techniques. It's a great book from a defense attorney's standpoint to cross-examine a social worker with, but if every state mandated this book as training for social workers in the first place, we would have fewer cases in the system, and more reliable evidence.
Best book for current interview protocols.......1999-01-30
I wish I had read this book the first day it came out. Very good protocols. Very effective strategies. Speaking as a law enforcement investigator assigned to these cases almost exclusively, there is not a better book I've found yet.
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Equal Treatment for People with Mental Retardation: Having and Raising Children
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Engaging in sex, becoming parents, raising children: these are among the most personal decisions we make, and for people with mental retardation, these decisions are consistently challenged, regulated, and outlawed. This book is a comprehensive study of the American legal doctrines and social policies, past and present, that have governed procreation and parenting by persons with mental retardation. It argues persuasively that people with retardation should have legal authority to make their own decisions.
Despite the progress of the normalization movement, which has moved so many people with mental retardation into the mainstream since the 1960s, negative myths about reproduction and child rearing among this population persist. Martha Field and Valerie Sanchez trace these prejudices to the eugenics movement of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. They show how misperceptions have led to inconsistent and discriminatory outcomes when third parties seek to make birth control or parenting decisions for people with mental retardation. They also explore the effect of these decisions on those they purport to protect. Detailed, thorough, and just, their book is a sustained argument for reform of the legal practices and social policies it describes.
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Inspiring and helpful.......2003-08-14
This book is fabulous and it is one of a kind. I found it helpful as a guardian often faced with ethical dilemmas about when I should decide and when "my ward" should. But the book is also written for doctors, policymakers, lawyers and judges, and parents -- in fact anyone interested in the assimilation of "the retarded" into the rest of the population.
It is actually fun reading and set up so you can skip the parts less relevant to you. It made me cry a couple of times as well as giving me many ideas -- and increasing my confidence in my judgments. READ IT. It will surely affect you profoundly in one way or another.
Romance & Retardation.......2003-08-06
While this closely argued and exhaustively researched book focuses on the reproductive legal rights of our retarded adults, its real core is to ask: Why should retarded people be deprived of the same rights the rest of us enjoy simply because they are retarded.
The book punctures the veil of silence around our automatic presumptions about these people that underlies our assumptions of the necessity and goodness of paternalistic regulation.
It does this by honing in on the most emotionally arousing aspect of the question. Asking why our retarded fellow citizens can be prevented from having sex and from having children brings us up against our deepest prejudices.
The book caused me to reconfigure my opinions in these areas in what feels to me a more useful perspective of the lives of these people, some of whom are my patients. I think it is a must read for anyone involved in any aspect of the care of our retarded population.
Controversial and convincing.......2000-10-15
This book puts forth a compelling thesis: The mentally retarded should have full rights to manage their own sexual and reproductive lives. The idea sounds good, but most people would quail at its full implications. Should a severely retarded 15-year-old be allowed to bear a child? What about situations where parents fear a daughter might suffer from rape in an institution? Should they have the right to have their daughter sterilized? A Harvard law professor, Field does not dodge the hard questions. She addresses them and forces a re-thinking of conventional ideas about who should make decisions for others and why. Field writes with such authority and conviction that at the end you are likely to be persuaded that human rights apply to the retarded in ways you never imagined. Analytical and systematic, the book is rooted in a deep knowledge of the law and a concern for the shaping of social policy. It is a must-read for those who face decisions about the retarded, either within their families or in the public arena. Those concerned with human rights will also find their minds, and perhaps their causes, expanded when they read this book.
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An essential reference on memory for clinicians, researchers, attorneys, and judges. This detailed reference work critically reviews memory research, trauma treatment, and legal cases pertaining to the false memory controversy. It discusses current memory science, pointing out where findings are and are not generalizable to trauma memories recovered in psychotherapy. The main issues in the recovered memory debate are covered, as well as research on emotion and memory, memory for trauma, and types of suggestions, such as social persuasion and brainwashing. Exploration of memory in the legal context includes tips on avoiding malpractice liability and on using hypnosis. The appropriate standard of care in cases when memory issues are involved is outlined.
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The final word.......2003-03-18
This book really should be the final word on the "debate" about whether, and the degree to which, traumatic memories can be repressed. The authors thoroughly and rigorously examine the scientific evidence showing that traumatic memories are indeed often forgotten. They also show, at great length, the many logical holes in the arguments of many of the proponents of the so-called "false memory" position.
Yet the book's great strength--its thoroughness--is also its weakness. Presumably because so much of this so-called debate so clearly disregards scientific evidence, the authors go to exhaustive lengths to show the scientific evidence for amnesia of these memories. That's a wonderful and important thing to do. But it also doesn't always make for the most exciting reading. Thus the one-star reduction: in their desire to make sure that every angle is covered from any possible attack, the authors end up repeating themselves a fair amount. The book (weighing in at more than 650 pages of text) could probably have been cut to about 450 pages without losing anything. Then it would certainly have been a five star book.
American Psychiatric Association Award Winning Book.......2001-09-09
This award winning APA book is a remarkable and notable contribution to the literature addressing impact of traumatic
exposure in memory and culture, specific to the legal arena. Brown, Hammond, and Sheflin have researched and synthesized considerable information about clinical practice, theoretical
and research perspectives on approaches to trauma treatment,
and adjudication of related disputes and damages in the
courts. A must for anyone - clinician, lawyer, judge,
client, clinical instructor, educator, law enforcement
professional, and others who find themselves involved in
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Essential Text for Trauma clinicians.......2001-09-08
This is a magnificent work, skillfully combining research, case review and practical guidelines for clinicians who are practicing in the complex field of trauma recovery. It is both an essential core reference work and a key guide to negotiating the thorny interaction of psychology practice and the law. My highest recommendation.
Best on trauma treatment, memory and the law.......1999-12-16
This book is the Bible for all those who are interested in the most scientific and thorough understanding of the treatment of trauma survivors, the current understanding of how memory functions and the law as related to both therapists and patients. The authors had to spend several chapters undoing the misinformation that has been prominent during the last few years both in the popular press and in books without scientific merit. These books that have misinformed the general public and professionals are now corrected by this book. It deserves the award it has been given and more. It is a must read for all professionals, patients, lawyers and journalists who wish to honestly write about these areas of the field of psychology.
Thorough, Unbiased Review of Research and Treatment.......1999-06-06
Brown, et al, have produced a book reviewing the state of the art regarding memory, trauma and treatment that is unbiased and complete as I have seen. Their views are supported by the research and thoroughly scientific. Lawyers, judges, and especially clinicians will benefit from the clear rendering of standards of care and methods of trauma treatment. This book suggests treatment protocols that will reduce the liklihood of "false-memory" litigation and increase the frequency of positive treatment outcome.
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EVERY YEAR THOUSANDS OF CHILDREN are sexually abused, but the system created in the 1970's by a few mental health professionals and adopted by law enforcement and child protection agencies is making things worse. In this book, psychiatrist Lee Coleman and attorney Patrick Clancy describe how and why this is happening. By explaining the history of the child sexual abuse prevention movement, and exposing the fatal romance between mental health and law enforcement, the authors show how caring and intelligent people, including police officers, social workers, child therapists, teachers and even parents, may unwittingly create false accusations of sexual abuse.
The result is a new form of state-sponsored abuse of both children and those unjustly accused. Analysis of real investigations, such as the notorious McMartin Preschool case, makes it an indispensable guide for attorneys, judges, investigators and all those who seek the truth of sexual abuse accusations. The book's importance does not end there: it also calls for legislative reform of our currently misguided child protection system. As such, Has a Child Been Molested? Is important for anyone who believes that child protection and justice need not be incompatible.
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Defending Child Molesters.......2007-08-22
I've had an opportunity to hear Dr. Coleman testify in a child molest case. He had to admit under cross-examination by the D.A. prosecuting the case that he had not attempted to get the entire version of events by both sides before testifying for the defendant. He didn't follow his own protocol of being "open-minded and neutral" in his approach when investigating this type of case or to gather "historical" evidence from all sides. He had to admit that he didn't even attempt to gather any type of evidence from the victim or her family, just interviewed the defendant and his wife some three years later and then felt comfortable testifying that the child must have been led by her mother to believe she was molested. Any person writing or testifying as an expert has a duty to be thorough, fair and neutral in their approach to such critical issues and cases. However, Dr. Coleman doesn't seem to want to practice what he preaches.
If the answer is yes..........2005-10-21
This author doesn't seem to think there is anyway to know if a child is molested unless there is a camera present. The rest of the world relies on open-ended questions and play therapy but he dismisses it as leading. As a mother who knows you can notice changes in your child's personality and play. I don't want to see one person to get away with ruining innocent lives because they used this book to twist the truth!!!!
Has a Child Been Molested.......2005-08-02
This is a very good book. It gives a balanced treatment of an issue that has reached near hysteria proportions in America today. Child abuse is an awful crime. In the past our society often swept it under the rug. But, today is too often alleged. Parents can too easily put a child up to making false allegations to get back at one another. Alternatively they can sometimes convince a child not to make allegations to protect a spouse on whom they are emotionally, financially, or spiritually dependant.
These days the mere accusation of abuse renders the accused branded for life. Also, these false accusations make it harder to give attention to the real cases. This is a book attorneys, police, and mental health workers should read carefully.
It gives factual information. It shows clear signs of actual or feigned molestation. It has case studies from real life examples. It is the kind of book that can bolster us to fight this crime, but caution us against charging in without proper facts.
Jesse Barrow
The Question is more Important than the Answer.......2000-02-15
"Has a Child Been Molested" belongs in every criminal defense lawyer's library if you are going to represent clients accused of child molesting. This book will educate the attorney to be aware of issues and problems that are unique to these cases and that without the insights of Dr. Coleman and Mr. Clancy one can easily overlook to the client's ultimate detriment. The highest compliment I can pay to the book and its authors is that it made me a better lawyer and allowed me to represent my clients more effectively. As a criminal defense lawyer with over 20 years of experience, I can strongly recommend Dr. Coleman as a powerful expert witness for the defense in child sexual abuse cases. His testimony on issues such as suggestability of child witnesses, syndrome evidence, an rebutting false claims of physical evidence of abuse is absolutely necessary if these cases are to be presented effectively and fairly to juries. This book covers all the major issues of mental health, medicine, and interview techniques that constantly appear in child molest cases. The book points out how doctors and therapists have been corrupted to apply their professional expertise in the name of saving the abused child based on the presumption that "children never lie" about these things. Dr. Coleman and Mr. Clancy point out how this movement to save the children got started and how it has been allowed to run wild through our criminal justice system. More importantly, they provide information and guidance that will allow the reader to understand what is happening and how to prevent the misuse of medicine and psychiatry in the courtroom. Anyone truly interested in seeing the truth come out in a courtroom cannot afford to ignore this truly important work.
Extremely helpful for an understanding of the problem.......2000-02-12
Dr.Coleman's book provided me valuable insight while I was involved in the difficult task of representing a client accused of molesting his 9 year old daughter. The unfair investigative techniques and psychiatric myths foisted upon our juries in these cases are unravelled by Dr. Coleman's careful analysis of the issues. The straightforward explanantions by Dr. Coleman make this book a must for every lawyer defending these difficult cases. DAN BURLAND Esq. San Jose CA
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