Explicating Alcohol???s Role in Acquaintance Sexual Assault: Complementary Perspectives and Convergent Findings

Forensic evidence findings in prepubertal victims of sexual assault.

OBJECTIVE The American Academy of Pediatrics recommends forensic evidence collection when sexual abuse has occurred within 72 hours, or when there is bleeding or acute injury. It is not known whether these recommendations are appropriate for prepubertal children, because few data exist regarding the utility of forensic evidence collection in cases of child sexual assault. This study describes t...

Studies of Scientific Discovery: Complementary Approaches and Convergent Findings

This review integrates 4 major approaches to the study of science—historical accounts of scientific discoveries, psychological experiments with nonscientists working on tasks related to scientific discoveries, direct observation of ongoing scientific laboratories, and computational modeling of scientific discovery processes—by viewing them through the lens of the theory of human problem solving...

Successfully Investigating Acquaintance Sexual Assault A National Training Manual for Law Enforce- ment

Successfully Investigating Acquaintance Sexual Assault A National Training Manual for Law Enforce- ment

Giving advice. Decision theory perspectives on sexual assault.

What entitles us to give general advice? This general question is explored here in the specific context of providing responsible advice to women on how to make decisions about possible ways of reducing their risk of sexual assault. An approach is advanced that is a combination of decision analysis, used to provide a formal characterization of decision situations, and behavioral decision theory,...