BEHAVIORAL ANALYSIS FOR COMPLEX CASES
Behavior under coercion can look like consent, complicity, or choice.
I help legal teams understand behavior that can otherwise be difficult to explain—and determine whether coercion, exploitation, dependency, or high-control dynamics are actually supported by the evidence.
When Behavior Doesn’t Make Sense
Why did they stay?
Why did they go back?
Why defend the person harming them?
Why didn’t they say no?
Why are their accounts inconsistent?
A client returns to an abusive relationship.
A trafficking victim maintains contact with an exploiter.
A defendant appears to participate in conduct they later describe as coerced.
A witness recants or gives inconsistent accounts.
These behaviors can become important evidence — but their meaning is not always obvious.
When To Call
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A client stayed, returned, recanted, maintained contact, or otherwise behaved in ways that appear inconsistent with the account being presented.
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A victim, witness, claimant, or defendant took actions that may look like cooperation, assistance, or complicity.
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Texts, emails, interviews, recordings, or other evidence appear inconsistent with claims of coercion, abuse, or exploitation.
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The case involves allegations of coercion, exploitation, trafficking, abuse, or high-control dynamics, but the behavioral evidence needs independent analysis.
How I Work with Legal Teams
You don’t need to know whether you need an expert before you call.
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Early assessment of behavior or evidence that may involve coercion, exploitation, dependency, or high-control dynamics—and whether deeper analysis would be useful.
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Analysis of behavioral evidence, including records, communications, interviews, chronology, relationship dynamics, and competing explanations.
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Independent case evaluation, expert reports, deposition, and trial testimony when formal expert involvement is appropriate.
AREAS OF FOCUS
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Human Trafficking
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Coercive Control
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Exploitation & Abuse
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Criminal Cases Involving Coercion
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High-Control Groups & Cult Dynamics
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Undue Influence
INDEPENDENT ANALYSIS
Coercion should not be assumed.
The evidence may support a coercion-based interpretation, weaken it, or point toward another explanation.
The goal is to understand what best explains the behavior and what the evidence actually supports.
Felicia Rosario, MD
Forensic Behavioral Analyst & Litigation Consultant
AB, Harvard University
MD, Columbia University
Member, Harvard Medical School’s Program in Psychiatry and the Law
Executive Producer, Hulu’s Stolen Youth
International Speaker
DISCUSS A CASE
If you are an attorney or legal professional and would like to discuss whether consultation or expert analysis may be useful in a matter, please get in touch.
Please do not submit confidential records or case documents through this form.
Or contact: expert@feliciarosario.com