Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 1 September 2016
- ISBN 9780198723301
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages328 pages
- Size 240x161x24 mm
- Weight 662 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
Brings together contributions by academics and experts from different disciplinary backgrounds focused on false allegations of recent or historical abuse. The adjective 'false', used interchangeably with 'wrongful', includes allegations made in error as well as those which are deliberate fabrications or distortions of the truth.
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Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse fills a gap for an authoritative and considered text focused on false accusations of recent or historical abuse, both as a miscarriage of justice and as an ordeal which impairs lives even when it does not result in criminal charges. It brings together experts from different disciplinary backgrounds and relevant specialisms to explicate the context, causes, and processes that foster erroneous or fabricated allegations and to consider ways of reducing their incidence and the injustices that follow them.
While there has been a welcome increase in policies which address child abuse, rape and other sexual offences, these tend to neglect or disavow the diametrical problem of false allegations of such offences. It is inherent in the, typically, unwitnessed and physically uncorroborated nature of these 'hidden' crimes that they are difficult to prosecute; but also to disprove if no crime has been committed. It is right that all allegations of abuse are treated as believable and are rigorously investigated, but it is not in the interest of any progressive and robust system of justice to convict or malign innocent people. Approached from this more controversial perspective, the five parts of this volume chart the life-course of an untrue allegation. Beginning with the nature, extent and harm of false abuse allegations, the cultural and political context giving rise to false allegations, and then the causal and motivational factors for making them, are explored, before addressing the role and impact of the criminal justice system when handling such cases. The final part looks at the ways such concerns might be addressed whilst remaining mindful of victims of abuse and their suffering.
Tackling an under-researched and under-discussed area, Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse offers thoughtful and thought-provoking discourses around an understandably difficult and sensitive area. It will be essential reading for academics and students of criminology, sociology, criminal justice, criminal law, socio-legal studies, and psychology, as well as those working with victims of false allegations, and police and specialist practitioners dealing with sexual offences and child abuse.
Ros Burnett has brought together a fantastic collection of contributors that cover almost every area of false accusations.
Table of Contents:
PART I: THE REALITY OF WRONGFUL ALLEGATIONS OF ABUSE What kind of allegations and why do they matter?
Wrongful Allegations of Sexual and Child Abuse: A Neglected and Growing Category of Injustice
Experiencing False Allegations of Abuse: First-hand Accounts
PART II: CULTURE, IDEOLOGY, POLITICS What is the terrain that gives rise to false allegations?
Demons, Devils and Ritual Abuse: Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Moral Crusades, Child Protection, Celebrities and the Duty to Believe
Telling Stories? Adults' Retrospective Narratives of Abuse in Residential Child Care
'Rape Culture' Narrative, State Feminism and the Presumption of Guilt
Making Accusations: Precautionary Logic and Embedded Suspicion in an Insecure and Uncertain World
PART III: THE ALLEGATION: CAUSES, MOTIVATIONS, CASE-STUDIES Why would anyone make a false accusation?
Why and How False Allegations of Abuse Occur: An Overview
The Compensations of Being a Victim
His Story, Her Story: Sexual Miscommunication, Motivated Remembering, and Intoxication as Pathways to Honest False Testimony Regarding Sexual Consent
Beliefs about Memory, Childhood Abuse and Hypnosis Amongst Clinicians, Legal Professionals and the General Public
To Catch a Sex Offender: Police, Trawls and Personal Injury Solicitors
PART IV: INTERROGATION, PROSECUTION, CONVICTION, APPEAL How could the justice system get it so wrong?
When Exoneration Seems Hopeless: The Special Vulnerability of Sexual Abuse Suspects to False Confession
Complaints of Sexual Abuse and the Decline of Objective Prosecuting
'In denial': the Hazards of Maintaining Innocence After Conviction
When Juries Find Innocent People Guilty: Strengths and Limitations of the Appellate System in England and Wales
PART V: FINDING WAYS FORWARD What's to be done?
Reducing Harm Due to False Allegations of Child Sexual Abuse: The Importance of Corroboration
Advances in Lie Detection: Limitations and Potential for Investigating Allegations of Abuse
Toward Reconciliation of the True and False Recovered Memory Debate
The Defendant's Plea of Innocent in Sexual Abuse Cases
Reducing the Incidence and Harms of Wrongful Allegations of Abuse
