Detecting Malingering and Deception

by Hall, Harold V.; Pritchard, David A.

• ISBN13: 9781574440232
• ISBN10: 1574440233
• Edition: Revised
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1996-01-01
• Publisher: Gr Pr Inc

Summary

This book is the culmination of more than 20 years of study, research, and the direct evaluation of thousands of forensic clients. The authors provide the reader with the highest caliber of professionalism and make clear that the current state of the art in deception analysis is crude to say the least. They challenge readers to closely examine their own decision processes in regard to deception. And they admit that they have no sympathy for the common complaint that proper deception analysis requires much time and effort, which can be a burden to the busy professional. They make clear that the days of administering an MMPI and a Rorschach to a client and thereby knowing everything there is to know about that person are gone forever.

Author Biography

Harold V. Hall is the Director of the Pacific Institute for the Study of Conflict and Aggression located in Kamuela, Hawaii. He has served as a consultant for a wide variety of criminal and civil justice system agencies, including the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Bureau of Prisons, the U.S. Secret Service, and district and circuit courts at both the state and federal levels. Dr. Hall is a diplomate in both forensic psychology and clinical psychology from the American Board of Professional Psychology and is a fellow of the American Psychological Association. He was elected Distinguished Practitioner, National Academy of Practice in Psychology. He has investigated and trained others in deception analysis since the late 1960s in Hawaii, on the continental United States, and in Europe Joseph G. Poirier is the Clinical Director of the Child and Adolescent Forensic Evaluation Service (CAFES), Health and Human Services, Montgomery County Government, Rockville, Maryland. For 30 years, he has also been the codirector of the Circuit Court Mental Health Service, Prince Georges County, Maryland. He has testified as an expert witness in federal court and in district and circuit courts in a number of states. Dr. Poirier maintains a clinical-forensic private practice in Silver Spring, Maryland. Dr. Poirier is triple board certified in forensic psychology, clinical psychology, and family psychology by the American Board of Professional Psychology. He is also a fellow of the American Psychological Association

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. xvii
Background, Theory, and Method in Deception Analysis
Foundational Issues in Deception	p. 3
Involuntary Distortion	p. 23
The Applied Forensic Distortion Analysis Model	p. 31
Evaluation Process Guidelines	p. 39
Deception and Noverbal Behavior	p. 49
The Developmental Context of Deception
Deception in Nonhumans	p. 63
Children and Deception	p. 71
Deception and Adolescents	p. 99
Deception and Elderly People	p. 111
Deception Analysis in Civil Contexts
Civil Law and Deception	p. 121
Malingered Neuropsychological Deficits	p. 135
Faked Pain and Loss of Sensation	p. 157
Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder and Deception	p. 171
Deception Analysis in Criminal Contexts
Interviewing and Deception	p. 207
Criminal Profiling	p. 217
Forensic Hypnosis	p. 237
Competency and Deception	p. 249
Criminal Responsibility and Deception	p. 261
Faked Amnesia and Recall Skills	p. 269
Psychosis and Deception	p. 285
Hallucinations and Deception	p. 305
Substance Abuse Deception	p. 313
Dangerousness Evaluation and Deception	p. 325
Conclusions and Expert Testimony	p. 339
Appendixes
Pain Survey Checklist	p. 361
Self-Control and Instant Offense Behaviors	p. 371
Insanity Report Form	p. 393
Self-Control Analysis: A Case Illustration	p. 399
Interactional Report: A Case Illustration	p. 409
Cutoff Scores for Chance-Level Responding to Tests of Varying Lengths	p. 423
Glossary	p. 425
Index	p. 429
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