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"Unreliable medical determinations of shaken baby syndrome are pervasive around the world and lead to many miscarriages of justice. This textbook is the first to offer a rigorous, evidence-based examination of the controversy for doctors, researchers, lawyers, child welfare workers, law enforcement, and affected families"--
About the author
Keith A. Findley is Professor of Law at the University of Wisconsin, and former president of the Innocence Network.Cyrille Rossant is a neuroscience researcher and software engineer at the International Brain Laboratory and University College London.Kana Sasakura is a professor of criminal procedure law at Konan University, Kobe. She is the co-director of the SBS Review Project Japan as well as the deputy director of the Innocence Project Japan.Leila Schneps is Professor of Mathematics working at Sorbonne University, Paris. She has published Math on Trial (Basic Books, 2013, with C. Colmez) about miscarriages of justice caused by mathematical errors.Waney Squier is a retired paediatric neuropathologist formerly at John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK.Knut Wester is a neurosurgeon, and Professor Emeritus in the Department of Clinical Medicine at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Summary
Tackling a highly controversial subject at the intersection of medicine, science, and law, this landmark book presents evidence-based analyses from a multidisciplinary panel of 32 specialists across 8 countries to investigate the claim that certain intracranial findings can alone be used as proof of shaking and an intentional abusive act.
