Full Description
False Allegations: Investigative and Forensic Issues in Fraudulent Reports of Crime provides investigators and forensic examiners with a reference manual comprised of objective protocols for managing cases. It helps them understand the nature and extent of false allegations to more accurately identify false allegations should they present in casework. It also prepares users on how to confront and explain false allegations, including instances where colleagues and supervisors may be steeped in bias, denial or self-interest.
Responding law enforcement agencies have a duty of care to investigate all reported crime, to recognize and uncover false allegations, and prevent them from causing harm to the innocent. Failure to do so can result in miscarriages of justice. When law enforcement fails in their duty of care, they are also exposed to civil liability from those that have been falsely accused.
Contents
1. False Allegations: An Intro2. False 9-1-1 Calls3. False Allegations of Child Abuse4. False reports in the Workplace5. False Reports of Physical Injury6. Welfare and Medicaid / Medicare Fraud7. False Reports of Theft, Burglary, and Robbery8. False Allegations of Sexual Assault9. False Reports of Abduction10. False Reports of Homicide11. Psychological Aspects of Malingering and False Reporting12. Special Populations: The Distraught and Mentally Ill13. Special Populations: College Students14. Special Populations: Sex Workers15. Special Populations: The Military16. Special Populations: Law Enforcement17. The BARFI - Universal Indicators of False Reporting
