Criminal
Mar. 11, 2016
Focus on detecting sex crimes today
When I saw Senate Bill 813, recently introduced in the California Legislature, which aims to do away with California's statute of limitations for sex crimes, it immediately caught my eye. By Elizabeth Loftus
For more than four decades, I have been studying the human memory. Over the years, a growing body of research, including my own, has found that, contrary to what some may think, the human memory is not like a recording device. You can't perfectly preserve events, to be played or rewound and replayed at will. Instead, our memories are more like a Wikipedia page: they can be edited by us and other people, and more so with each y...
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