Commentary: Female forensic worker sexual misconduct--who is the captive?

Sexual boundary violations committed by female forensic workers.

A vast literature has focused on sexual boundary violations in professional practice. Much of this analysis has focused on the intersection between gender and professional authority in cases of misconduct committed by male professionals against female clients and patients. Although certainly of importance, such power-based gender analysis may overlook instances of misconduct in which a female p...

Commentary: Skilled forensic capacity needed to investigate allegations of research misconduct.

Response to "Acquaintance molestation and youth-serving organizations" by Kenneth V. Lanning and Park Dietz.

Lanning and Dietz clearly lay out the patterns of acquaintance molestation in youth-serving organizations, a service to anyone who works with youth, as well as parents, and children who participate in these organizations. Nearly everything argued in their article is true for schools. Using school examples, I will illustrate what Lanning and Dietz’s four “misunderstood phenomena” look like in sc...

Approaches to forensic assessment of false claims of sexual misconduct by therapists.

The author offers systematic approaches to evaluation of claims of therapist-patient sexual misconduct, together with their rationales. False accusations should be considered in all such cases in order to maintain the balanced forensic perspective and to probe for malingering, as in all evaluations. Practical techniques are offered and the underlying reasoning described.

"Therapist-patient sex syndrome": the perils of nomenclature for the forensic psychiatrist.

The escalating problem of sexual misconduct has heightened clinicians' awareness of the consequences of therapist-patient sexual relations. One consciousness-raising device, the definition of "therapist-patient sex syndrome," may pose more problems than remedies in the forensic, rather than clinical context. The author reviews the conceptual, diagnostic, and teleological dimensions of this addi...