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False accusations (or groundless accusations or unfounded accusations or false allegations or false claims) can be in any of the following contexts: * Informally in everyday life. * Quasi-judicially * Judicially. ==Types== When there is insufficient supporting evidence to determine whether an accusation is true or false, it is described as "unsubstantiated" or "unfounded". Accusations that are determined to be false based on corroborating evidence can be divided into three categories:〔 * An allegation that is completely false in that the events that were alleged did not occur; * An allegation that describes events that did occur, but were perpetrated by an individual who is not accused, and in which the accused person is innocent. * An allegation that is partially true and partially false, in that it mixes descriptions of events that actually happened with other events that did not occur. A false allegation can occur as the result of intentional lying on the part of the accuser;〔Clifton D. Bryant, ''Deviant Behavior: Readings in the Sociology of Norm Violation'' (1990), p. 190.〕 or unintentionally, due to a confabulation, either arising spontaneously due to mental illness 〔 or resulting from deliberate or accidental suggestive questioning, or faulty interviewing techniques. Researchers Poole and Lindsay suggested in 1997 applying separate labels to the two concepts, proposing the term "false allegations" be used specifically when the accuser is aware they are lying, and "false suspicions" for the wider range of false accusations in which suggestive questioning may have been involved. When a person is suspected of a wrongdoing for which they are in fact responsible, "false accusation may be used to divert attention from one's own guilt".〔 False accusation may also arise in part from the conduct of the accused, particularly where the accused engages in behaviors consistent with having committed the suspected wrongdoing, either unconsciously or for purposes of appearing guilty.〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「false accusation」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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