Hundreds of Cases, One Standard of Excellence: Forensic Consulting at RTI
Forensic Services
RTI provides expert consultation, evaluation, and testimony in cases involving intimate partner violence, coercive control, trauma, victim behavior, and offender dynamics.
With decades of clinical, training, and forensic experience, RTI helps attorneys and legal professionals understand complex relationship patterns and the psychological factors that may be relevant to a case.
Services may include:
Expert consultation and case review
Psychological and risk-related evaluation
Intimate partner violence and coercive control analysis
PTSD and trauma-related consultation
Expert witness testimony
Expert witness evaluations and consultation for "Intimate Partner Battering and its Effects" (formerly known as "Battered Women's Syndrome") cases
Expert witness evaluation and consultation to help clarify why victims of intimate partner violence often behave in counter-intuitive fashion (recanting testimony, not cooperating with legal authorities, staying in relationship with offender, etc.)
Assessment of issues regarding “intimate partner terrorism” issues and the motivations of power and control
Evaluations and general testimony clarifying the complex issues of “coercive control” for the Court, even when there is no or minimal physical abuse
Screening and risk appraisal for intimate partner violence, sexual violence, and other offenders
Education regarding issues of the “Cycle of Abuse” intimate partner violence cases
Testimony to clarify issues of “perfect” and “imperfect” self-defense in intimate partner violence cases
Expert witness evaluations and consultation for identifying possibility of bidirectional abuse in intimate partner violence cases
Evaluation of emotional injury and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder issues, especially in cases of relationship violence
Assessment of “feigning” and “malingering” issues that are especially relevant to the legal case, utilizing the most contemporary and valid assessment tools
Review of the forensic work of other professionals, evaluating the strengths and weaknesses of the forensic report to assist attorneys in legal strategy