Testing Claims of Crime-Related Amnesia

Marko Jelicic

doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00617

Testing Claims of Crime-Related Amnesia

Marko Jelicic^*

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Abstract

Many violent offenders report amnesia for their crime. Although this type of memory loss is possible, there are reasons to assume that many claims of crime-related amnesia are feigned. This article describes ways to evaluate the genuineness of crime-related amnesia. A recent case is described in which several of these strategies yielded evidence for feigned crime-related amnesia.

Original language	English
Article number	617
Number of pages	6
Journal	Frontiers in Psychiatry
Volume	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00617
Publication status	Published - 21 Nov 2018

Keywords

crime-related amnesia
deception
feigning
malingering
forensic neuropsychology
MALINGERED-SYMPTOMATOLOGY SIMS
STRUCTURED-INVENTORY
CRIMINAL OFFENSES
DEPENDENT MEMORY
PEOPLE BELIEVE
ADMISSIBILITY
PSYCHOLOGISTS
OFFENDERS
DEFICITS
INJURY

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