• Harmful but Widely Believed Myths

• Reliability and Suggestibility of Child Witnesses

• Psychologists as "Expert" Witnesses

• If You Are Falsely Accused

• Our brochure in Word and PDF format. Print out and use as you wish.

Classic Sex Panic Cases

• Articles by NCRJ Director Debbie Nathan: 

  • The Ritual Sex Abuse Hoax (A Must Read)

  • Revisiting Country Walk

  • McMartin Pre-Schooler: "I 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.

• 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

The Sex Offender: Rational and Irrational Approaches

• 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

• State of Michigan Protocol for Proper Forensic Interviewing of Children Alleged to Have Been Sexually Abused. Developed by NCRJ Advisor, Dr. Debra Poole. PDF Format.

• Suggestibility, reliability, and the legal process . An excellent article by attorney Robert Rosenthal.

• The Government Accounting Office Report on the Cycle-of-Abuse Theory

Some Book Reviews

• Review of Harmful to Minors by Dr. Carol Tavris

• Review of Actual Innocence by Mark Pendergrast