Memory development: implications for adults recalling childhood experiences in the courtroom

Adults frequently provide compelling, detailed accounts of early childhood experiences in the courtroom. Judges and jurors are asked to decide guilt or innocence based solely on these decades-old memories using 'common sense' notions about memory. However, these notions are not in agreement with findings from neuroscientific and behavioural studies of memory development. Without expert guidance, judges and jurors may have difficulty in properly adjudicating the weight of memory evidence in cases involving adult recollections of childhood experiences

Communism and Communion Religious Policy, Church-Based Opposition and Free Space Development: A Comparative Study of East Germany, Poland and Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1989

The goal of religious policy as executed in communist Poland, East Germany and Yugoslavia aimed to marginalize national churches. However, by the 1960s, these regimes were forced to accommodate for the relevance of religious life. As national churches and regime officials engaged each other in a process of negotiated response to incentives, church-based free spaces emerged that allowed for less state intervention. Under this protective umbrella, these spaces became the catalyst for oppositional voices, nurturing ideas that challenged the regime's authority. In Poland and East Germany, these spaces espoused liberal-democratic principles, while an exclusionary-nationalist model emerged in Yugoslavia. This dissertation asserts that the process behind the execution of religious policy help to account for this difference