Flawed Convictions: "Shaken Baby Syndrome" and the Inertia of Injustice

by Deborah Tuerkheimer

Book Overview

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 a reasonable doubt that an infant was abused, or that the last person with the baby was responsible for the baby's condition. Nevertheless, our legal...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0190233613
• ISBN13: 9780190233617
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.1" x 9.1"