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Absolute Essentials

• Harmful but Widely Believed Myths
• Reliability and Suggestibility of Child Witnesses
• Psychologists as “Expert” Witnesses
• If You Are Falsely Accused

An Extensive Bibliography

Additional Information You Can Read Online

Classic Sex Panic Cases

• Articles by journalist Debbie Nathan:
  • The Ritual Sex Abuse Hoax (A Must Read)
  • Revisiting Country Walk
    
  • I’m Sorry. A McMartin accuser admits that he lied.
• Read our Press Release on the Release of Bernard Baran!
• A Day Care Witchhunt Tests Justice in Massachusetts by NCRJ Advisor Carol Tavris.
• Picture of Injustice
  An excellent article about the movie, Capturing the Friedmans, by NCRJ Advisor, Harvey Silverglate.
• NCRJ White Paper on the Jesse Friedman Case
  Co-Author: NCRJ Director Dr. Emily Horowitz
• The Passion of Father Paul Shanley
  . An analysis of a notorious recovered-memory case. By JoAnn Wypijewski.

The Myth of “Repressed” Memory

• An excellent op-ed — “The Folklore of Buried memories” — by Dr. Richard McNally.
• Articles by NCRJ Advisor Dr. Elizabeth Loftus .
• Articles by NCRJ Director Mark Pendergrast:
  • Myths and Realities About Memory and Therapy
  • The Bloated Corpse
  • Multiple Personalities and Satanic Cults
• Read our letter to the California Supreme Court.
• Dr. Richard McNally’s letter to that Court.
• Memories Improbable: “Recovered Memories” in Perspective by Dr. Travis Gee. (1995: Carleton University, Ottawa, Canada) PhD comprehensive examination paper. Archival or distribution of this document must be approved by Dr. Gee. Email requests to the NCRJ. (PDF format, 713k)

False Confessions

• Untrue Confessions by NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz

Shaken Baby Syndrome

• Rethinking Shaken Baby Syndrome by Joseph Shapiro
• Shaken Baby Syndrome, Abusive Head Trauma, and Actual Innocence: Getting it Right by Keith A. Findley, Patrick D. Barnes, David A, Moran, and Waney Squier
• Shaken Baby Syndrome: Perspectives on a Controversial Diagnosis by Medill Justice Project
• Posts about SBS from the Wrongful Convictions blog.

The Sex Offender: Rational and Irrational Approaches

• Perverted Justice by Jacob Sullum for Reason magazine
• No Easy Answers: Sex Offender Laws in the US.
  An excellent report from Human Rights Watch.
• “Towards More Effective Sex Offense Legislation.” From the Research Volunteers at the National Center on Institutions and Alternatives, Inc. This report quotes NCRJ Director Judith Levine.
• Growing Media and Legal Attention to Sex Offenders: More Safety or More Injustice? by NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz.
• Cruel and Unusual: Levine on Sex Offenders by NCRJ Director Judith Levine.

Legal and Scientific Approaches

• Actual Innocence after Friedman v. Rehal: The Second Circuit Pursues a New Mechanism for Seeking Justice in Actual Innocence Cases
• How Faulty Science Lands Innocent People Behind Bars as Accused Child Murderers
• Child Sexual Abuse Investigations: Lessons Learned. Writers include journalist Debbie Nathan and NCRJ Advisor Dr. James Wood.
• State of Michigan Protocol for Proper Forensic Interviewing of Children Alleged to Have Been Sexually Abused. Developed by Dr. Debra Poole. PDF Format.
• Murder by Nursing, by NCRJ Director Emily Horowitz.
• Suggestibility, reliability, and the legal process
  . An excellent article by attorney Robert Rosenthal.
• The Government Accounting Office Report on the Cycle-of-Abuse Theory
• Why Interrogation Contamination Occurs. By NCRJ Advisor Dr. Richard Leo.

Some Book Reviews

• Review of Harmful to Minors by Dr. Carol Tavris
• Review of Actual Innocence by Mark Pendergrast