Textual Analysis of a
Recovered Memory Trial Assisted by Computer Search for Keywords
By Max Scharnberg, Associate professor
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Psychology
researcher Max Scharnberg has his PhD in Education. He has taught the
Psychology of Lies at Uppsala University and at the Stockholm Business
School. He has been an expert in at least 25 incest cases. He has, for a
number of years, examined psychoanalysis and Sigmund Freud's work. ***************** |
This book has two aims: to describe techniques for the analysis of legal evidence,
which are valid and independent of specific features of the investigator; and
to apply these techniques to the Södertälje case, which has hitherto neither
been subjected to a logical nor a critical analysis. All pre-trial information,
inter alia 40 police interrogations of the injured party ("Elvira"),
was scanned into one single document of 245 000 words. The following cardinal
results were obtained:
(1) The foster mother knows literally
every event Elvira "had experienced" several months before Elvira
knows and confirms them. This pattern proves that the foster mother is the
person who had fabricated and indoctrinated the assaults.
(2) The number of assaults may be around 250. Elvira has given concrete descriptions of only 12. This is important because Elvira claimed that her two-year-younger sister was an eyewitness of 11 of the 12 concrete assaults. At 7 concrete assaults there were additional eyewitnesses. - All alleged eyewitnesses deny that they have seen or experienced any indecent behaviour.
(3) When the five judges of die court of
appeal presented their justifications for the verdict: on pp. 42 and 44 of the
written judgment, they but grossly false recollections of both the mother's
testimony in the very same court, and of their own account of the latter on p.
22 of the same judgement. As a result they succeeded in convicting the father
of a large number of assaults of which Elvira had never accused him.
(4) During the three months that preceded
the first police interrogation, four meetings occurred. At each meeting Elvira
absolutely denied having any recollection of sexual abuse. She denied the same
thing during the first police interrogation. But here she was also absolutely
sure that no assault had occurred during the last 5 ½ years. (Her
psychotherapist confirmed that Elvira did .not recount any concrete events
until after the first police interrogation.)
No trace of the crimes for which the
father was convicted can be found in any of the first four police
interrogations.
Twenty-seven judges found the father
guilty. None of them detected any of the cardinal facts.
Many other important results were
obtained, and some other cases were also studied. Further topics discussed are
the judges' responsibility for false verdicts, and how such mistakes can be
avoided.
ISSN 0347-1314
ISBN 978-91-554-7409-6
Textual
Analysis of a Recovered Memory Trial Assisted by Computer Search for Keywords
By Max Scharnberg, Associate
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