Malingering, lies, and junk science in the courtroom / edited by Jack Kitaeff.

Youngstown, N.Y. : Cambria Press, [2007], ©2007.

xxvi, 594 pages ; 24 cm

The need for critical thinking in forensic psychology / Harvey Schlossberg, Antoinette Collarini Schlossberg -- How science by media creates false certainties and resistance to conceptual change / Diane F. Halpern, Ariana Brooks, Clayton Stephenson -- Medical malingering and disability : historic, economic, and modern perspectives with management considerations / M. Nicholas Coppola ... [et al.] -- Psychiatric syndromes of the condemned / Alan A. Abrams ... [et al.] -- The myth of the successful insanity defense / Robert W. Bigelow -- Psychological and neuropsychological testing in workers' compensation : paradoxical objective psychometric findings versus subjective cognitive, psychological, and pain complaints / Richard G. Salamone -- Guarding the gates : expert testimony after Daubert / Karin Horwatt Cather -- The cost of reasonable doubt / Sandra R. Sylvester -- Madness in the Supreme Court : nullifying its own rules of scientific evidence : the phenomenon of lack of insight as a corrective to judicial nullification in civil commitment proceedings / Paul F. Stavis -- Posttraumatic stress disorder in litigation / Susan B. Trachtman -- "Into the wonderland of clairvoyance" : faulty science and the prediction of future dangerousness / John S. Carbone -- Are sexual offenses the result of an addictive pattern? / Stanton E. Samenow.

Includes bibliographical references and index.