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25 J. Psychiatry & L. [i] (1997)

handle is hein.journals/jpsych25 and id is 1 raw text is: SPRING 1997 THE JOURNAL OF PSYCHIATRY AND LAW Notes on Contributors 3 Editor's Page 5 Evidential Value of Therapist Versus Forensic Expert Testimony Who is in a better position to provide accurate testimony-the ther- apist or the forensic expert? The author explores this issue and provides an answer. PROFESSOR RALPH SLOVENKO 33 Child and Family Characteristics of Children's Post-Separation Visitation Refusal Many children involved in custody disputes are reluctant to visit with one parent. The authors present a study of factors potentially related to children's negative attitudes toward visitation. HELEN RADOVANOVIC, PH.D., MARY MOTZ, M.A., ERIC HOOD, M.B., Ch.B., FRANCES TAM, M.A. 51 Forensic Psychiatry: The Making-and Breaking-of Expert Opinion Testimony The 1975 adoption of the Federal Rules of Evidence liberalized the use of expert opinion evidence. The author examines these rules and court decisions and discusses their effects on the practice of forensic psychiatry. ALLEN P. WILKINSON, J.D. Book Section: Essays and Reviews Building a Safer Society: Strategic Approaches to Crime Preven- tion, edited by Michael Tonry and David P. Farrington, reviewed by Professor Candace Kruttschnitt. Genocide in Bosnia: The Policy of Ethnic Cleansing, by Norman Cigar, reviewed by Stephen C. Light, Ph.D. Serbia's Secret War: Propaganda and the Deceit of History, by Philip J. Cohen, reviewed by Professor H.H.A. Cooper.