Testing Claims of Crime-Related Amnesia

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 whi...

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Published inFrontiers in psychiatry Vol. 9; p. 617
Main Author Jelicic, Marko
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Switzerland Frontiers Media S.A 21.11.2018
Subjects
crime-related amnesia
deception
feigning
forensic neuropsychology
malingering
Psychiatry
feigning
malingering
crime-related amnesia
deception
forensic neuropsychology
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ISSN1664-0640
1664-0640
DOI10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00617

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Summary: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.
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Reviewed by: Stefano Zago, Fondazione IRCCS Ca' Granda Ospedale Maggiore Policlinico (IRCCS), Italy; Charles Scott, University of California, Davis, United States
This article was submitted to Forensic Psychiatry, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychiatry
Edited by: Cristina Scarpazza, Università degli Studi di Padova, Italy
ISSN:1664-0640
1664-0640
DOI:10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00617