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Demystifying Mindreading For The Law, Teneille R. Brown
Demystifying Mindreading For The Law, Teneille R. Brown
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
To lawyers, mindreading conjures up flamboyant images of crystal balls or charlatans. However, it is a deeply serious endeavor for the law. The primary role of fact-finders in civil, criminal, and administrative trials in the United States is to serve as highly-regulated mind readers—to listen to the testimony and decide whether the witnesses are credible and telling the truth. Because it can be so easily biased, we must directly acknowledge how jurors and judges (in addition to voters and employers) automatically and imperfectly read minds. We must remove the “mystique of mindreading,” and see how ordinary assessments of mental states …
Sea Of Destruction: Legal And Social Forces Enabling Sexual Abuse Of Children, Amos N. Guiora
Sea Of Destruction: Legal And Social Forces Enabling Sexual Abuse Of Children, Amos N. Guiora
Utah Law Faculty Scholarship
This Article seeks to expose the truth of how our schools, laws, and powerful groups in our society actively work to aid mobile molesters in schools—mobile because they move from child to child and school to school, all with the blessing of adult enablers who are charged to protect children. According to news reports, in 2015, at least 498 teachers and other school workers were arrested for sexual misconduct with children. That is almost three per school day. Even worse, in addition to the initial attack by the molester, the child is subsequently revictimized by others who aim attempt to …