Flawed convictions : "shaken baby syndrome" and the inertia of injustice / Deborah Tuerkheimer.
By: Tuerkheimer, Deborah [author.].
Publisher: Oxford [England] ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2014]Description: xiv, 298 pages ; 25 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780190233617.Subject(s): Child abuse -- Law and legislation -- United States | Shaken baby syndrome -- United States | Child abuse -- Law and legislation | Shaken baby syndrome | Barnmisshandel -- juridik och lagstiftning | Child Abuse -- legislation & jurisprudence | Shaken Baby Syndrome -- diagnosis | Diagnostic Errors | Forensic Medicine | United States | Förenta staterna | United StatesGenre/Form: Print books.| Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-289) and index.
A medical diagnosis of crime. A simple diagnosis ; The prosecution paradigm ; The lure of blame -- Complications. Scrutiny ; The new SBS ; Doubtful convictions -- The triad endures. Today's SBS ; Child abuse specialization ; Prosecutorial certainty ; Staying power -- Trials. Deciding guilt ; Case on trial -- Missed diagnosis. Diagnostic error ; A legal perspective on differential diagnosis ; Anatomy of a missed diagnosis -- Confessions. Non-confession confessions ; Unreliable confessions ; Inside the interrogation room -- Fluky justice. Acquittals ; Dismissals ; No-arrest cases -- Guilty pleas. A system in flux ; When innocents plead guilty ; Case studies in lopsided pleas ; The meaning of lopsided pleas -- The limits of judicial review. Sufficiency challenges ; Collateral attack -- Reform. Improving medical outcomes ; Upstream innocence protection ; Downstream innocence protection.