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  Dispatches from Dr. Joel Dvoskin: July 2008 Police Brutality by Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP Diplomate in Forensic Psychology University of Arizona College of Medicine Past President, American Psychology-Law Society (APA Division 41) Past President, Psychologists in Public Service…

Dispatches from Dr. Joel Dvoskin: March 2007 Religion, Sex, and Politics by Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP Diplomate in Forensic Psychology University of Arizona College of Medicine I have been reading with great sadness the intriguing case of the once-Reverend…

  Dispatches from Dr. Joel Dvoskin: November 2011 Open letter to Professor Michael Berube by Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic) University of Arizona College of Medicine Past President, American Psychology-Law Society (APA Division 41) Past President, Psychologists in Public…

Dispatches from Dr. Joel Dvoskin: October 2006 New Orleans Revisited by Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP Diplomate in Forensic Psychology University of Arizona College of Medicine Originally published in the Newsletter of the American Psychology – Law Society, Fall 2006…

Alice Miller The crucial role of an enlightened witness, or Why must the existing law forbidding corporal punishment absolutely include our own children? We all know—or, today, we should all know—that physical punishment only produces obedient children but cannot prevent…

The Charge of Rape, the Force of Myth By Alice VachssOriginally published in The Washington Post, November 2, 2003 You can’t argue as many rape cases before a jury as I did during my time as a New York City…

Dispatches from Dr. Joel Dvoskin: June 2006 Sex Offender Commitment Laws: A Response to LaFond and Winick by Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP Diplomate in Forensic Psychology University of Arizona College of Medicine A May 21, 2006 OP-ED piece in…

  Dispatches from Dr. Joel Dvoskin: June 2010 Poor Judgement and Bad Journalism by Joel A. Dvoskin, Ph.D., ABPP (Forensic) University of Arizona College of Medicine Past President, American Psychology-Law Society (APA Division 41) Past President, Psychologists in Public Service…

Through the Eyes of a Child: A Call for Equal Justice for Victims of Child Abuse By Victor Vieth1 Originally published in The Guardian, the publication of the National Association of Counsel for Children, Spring 2001. The NACC recently expanded…

“Every Smack is a Humiliation”A Manifesto By Alice Miller Many researchers have already proved that corporal punishment can indeed produce obedient children in the short term but, in the long term, it will have serious negative consequences on the child’s…