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Foetal Alcohol Spectrum Disorders: A consideration of sentencing and unreliable confessions

This article reviews legal approaches in Australia, New Zealand and internationally. People living with FASD often are highly suggestible, have difficulty linking their actions to consequences, controlling impulses and remembering things. This raises issues of appropriate sentencing and the admissibility of evidence.

Author: Heather Douglas

Date: January 2015

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