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The legal system in Sweden is highly important to international jurisprudence and forensic psychology, because extremely few documents are classified (and even these are almost always handed out to researchers); and also because the system does not recognise the concept of "impermissible evidence". As a result, many valid techniques for analysing evidence have developed, which have no counterpart in most other countries. In this book fact gathering, theoretical analysis and methodological consideration are extensive and intensive. Case-studies of alleged sexual abuse alternate with theoretical and methodological analyses. Both throw much light upon each other, and reciprocally promote insight into the field. It is not true that this kind of cases are particularly difficult, and that those responsible for the verdict can only believe in one or the other party. In some 50 cases it has been shown that there were invariably evidence that clearlt revealed what had happened, though this evidence was often overlooked by the judges.