Citation

Jelicic M. Front. Psychiatry 2018; 9: e617.

Affiliation

Department of Criminal Law and Criminology, Faculty of Law, Maastricht University, Maastricht, Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Frontiers Media)

DOI

10.3389/fpsyt.2018.00617

PMID

30519199

PMCID

PMC6258786

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.

Language: en

Keywords

crime-related amnesia; deception; feigning; forensic neuropsychology; malingering