Forensic Sleep Symposium: Neurological and Legal Challenges
This meeting is to advance the understanding of the forensic presentation of sleep-related behaviours (parasomnias): their neurological basis, cognitive phenomena, forensic presentations, the evaluation of evidence, social and legal challenges and the nature of dissociation and sleep-related dissociation
Objectives
- To understand the basic science and clinical features of parasomnias
- To understand the presentation of forensic cases of sleep-related sexual behaviours and sleep-related violence
- To understand the principles of the evaluation of the evidence is forensic sleep
- To understand the legal challenges in defending and prosecuting behaviours where a defence of sleep is proposed
- To understand the societal concerns and policy implications of the increase in sleep-related defences
- To understand the similarities and differences between sleep, dissociation, and sleep-related dissociation from a neuropsychiatric perspective
- To understand legal approaches to dissociative amnesia and dissociative behaviours in different jurisdictions
Who should attend
This event is aimed at sleep specialists, neurologists, forensic psychiatrists, neuropsychiatrists, psychologists, and lawyers, including all criminal lawyers: the CPS, barristers, solicitors, academic lawyers, criminologists, RASSO groups, and policy-makers. Anyone with an interest in these phenomena is welcome.
