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Ring, Sinead (2012) Due process and the admission of expert evidence on recovered memory in historic child sexual abuse cases: lessons from America. International Journal of Evidence and Proof, 16 (1). pp. 66-92. ISSN 1740-5572
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Abstract
This article reviews the decisions of the US state courts on the admissibility of expert testimony on recovered memory in historic child sexual abuse
prosecutions. Unlike their English and Irish counterparts, most US courts
scrutinise the reliability of expert evidence on recovered memory. In examining
the US decisions the article explores the challenges posed to the criminal
process by the contested scientific status of recovered memory theory. It sets out
due process arguments why expert evidence on the topic should not be
admitted in a criminal trial.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Expert evidence; Recovered memory; Due process; Historic child sexual abuse prosecutions; the United States; Ireland; England and Wales; Law Commission; |
| Academic Unit: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Law |
| Item ID: | 12311 |
| Identification Number: | 10.1350/ijep.2012.16.1.392 |
| Depositing User: | Sinead Ring |
| Date Deposited: | 30 Jan 2020 15:11 |
| Journal or Publication Title: | International Journal of Evidence and Proof |
| Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
| Refereed: | Yes |
| Related URLs: | |
| URI: | https://mural.maynoothuniversity.ie/id/eprint/12311 |
| Use Licence: | This item is available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial Share Alike Licence (CC BY-NC-SA). Details of this licence are available here |
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