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Three False Convictions, Many Lessons - The Psychopathology of Unjust Prosecutions (Paperback)
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Three False Convictions, Many Lessons - The Psychopathology of Unjust Prosecutions (Paperback)
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A new perspective on why false charges occur, proceed and persist
which looks at the roles of psychopathology, confirmation bias,
false confessions, the media and internet among other causes. Puts
lack of empathy at the fore in terms of police, prosecutors and
others whilst considering a wide range of other psychopathological
aspects of false convictions. Based on first-hand knowledge or
involvement (David Anderson was Stefan Kiszko's endocrinologist and
attended both his and the Knox/Sollecito trial). What drives false
but serious criminal charges and why do police and prosecutors
often persist against those wrongly in the dock? As this book
shows-by looking at three high profile cases, those of Amanda Knox
and Raffaele Sollecito (Italy), Stefan Kiszko (UK) and Darlie
Routier (USA)-motive forces are a mind-set in which psychopathy
(what the authors charitably term 'constitutional negative
empathy') may be present and in which confirmation bias (the need
to reinforce a decision once made or lose face) plays a large
part.Darlie Routier is still on death row in Texas despite
overwhelming evidence that her conviction for killing her own child
is false, whilst Knox, Sollecito and Kiszko have been vindicated by
the highest and best of authority and compelling evidence. The
authors show how wholly unfounded rumours still persist in the
Knox/Sollecito case due to hostile media and internet trolling. In
the Routier case they advance a new theory that the killings (two
in all) were in fact the work of a notorious serial killer.'In the
light of all this, questionable trial procedures need to be
overhauled, with much greater recognition of (their) imperfections
and of the general imbalance in favour of the prosecution. Greater
weight needs to be given...to establishing real, rather than merely
judicial, truth' - (Chapter 11).
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