Flawed convictions : "shaken baby syndrome" and the inertia of injustice /

The emergence of Shaken Baby Syndrome (SBS) presents an object lesson in the dangers that lie at the intersection of science and criminal law. As often occurs in the context of scientific knowledge, understandings of SBS have evolved. We now know that the diagnostic triad alone does not prove beyond...

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Main Author: Tuerkheimer, Deborah
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford, England ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014
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Table of Contents:
  • A medical diagnosis of crime
  • Complications
  • The triad endures
  • Trials
  • Missed diagnosis
  • Confessions
  • Fluky justice
  • Guilty pleas
  • The limits of judicial review
  • Reform