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1 online resource (290 pages) |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed September 8, 2017). |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Front cover; Copyright and publication details; Table of Contents; About the authors; Acknowledgements; Dedication; Publisher's note; Glossary of relevant terms; Dramatis Personae; Introduction; Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito; Stefan Kiszko; Darlie Routier; A reluctance to acknowledge mistakes; Human psychology, superstition and belief; The internet age and mass media; Avoiding mistakes; The Law, The Human Brain and Psychopathy; Medicine and law: How both need to be controlled; The science of empathy, psychopathy, and modern concepts of evil; Gender differences in empathy and systemising. |
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Testosterone effects on the brain/specific syndromesThe Psychopathy Checklist; High functioning (non-criminal) psychopaths; Are there psychopaths within the justice system?; The danger of relying on confessions; Trust and exploitation in unjust prosecutions; The importance and dangers of trust; On WYSIWYGs and WYSIJACs; The cancer of collective psychopathy; Witch-burning and exploitation of sympathy and horror; Some provisional thoughts; Murder in Perugia: An Improbable Conviction; The Kercher case; Occam's Razor versus dietrologia; Inspector Occam's reconstruction of Meredith's murder. |
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Rudy Guede's troubled pastRudy Guede's troubled present; Criminal profiling; Dietrologia: An improbable case is constructed; Romance and classical music; Amanda first on the crime scene; The strange case of the missing phones; Meredith's body discovered; Occam applied to Perugia's polizio-judicial system; Psychopathy and the justice system; The Monster of Florence; Prejudicial effect of the civil case in Italian law; Forensic shortcomings; Abuse of DNA evidence; Errors of omission and the time of Meredith's death; The necessity that the break-in was simulated not real. |
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False and contrived witnessesDestruction of important evidence; The unfortunate case of the shoe prints; Human rights issues; Willing exploitation of the press; A crime within a crime?; Italians in Court: One Man's View From No Man's Land; A hard time seeking to convince the press and media; Observations from court during the appeal; Courtroom ritual; An invitation to meet the prosecutors; John Follain: A critique; Press and media when the court was in session; Two years later: The appeal against the appeal; 'A nonsensical pile from Nencini (viz a nonsencini)' |
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Nd what drives the trolls€; Trolls harass and threaten offline as well; Hijacking of the Wikipedia page; The curious case of Harry Rag; Anonymous blogging; A brush with Harry; Harry Rag's exultation at the Nencini verdict; The baiting of Harry Rag. |
| Summary |
A new perspective on the roles of psychopathology, confirmation bias, false confessions, the media and internet (amongst other causes) of unjust accusations. Putting lack of empathy at the fore in terms of police, prosecutors and others, it considers a wide range of other psychopathological aspects of miscarriages of justice. By looking at three high profile cases, those of Amanda Knox and Raffaele Sollecito (Italy), Stefan Kiszko (UK) and Darlie Routier (USA)--the authors show that motive forces are a mind-set in which psychopathy (what they term 'constitutional negative empathy') may be present and the need to reinforce existing supposition 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 judicial authorities and telling evidence. The authors show how and why unfounded rumours still persist in the Knox/Sollecito case and advance a new theory that the Routier killings were the work of a notorious serial killer. |
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Judicial error.
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Judicial error -- Psychological aspects.
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LAW -- Criminal Law -- General.
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Judicial error. (OCoLC)fst00984666
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| Added Author |
Scott, Nigel P., author.
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| ISBN |
9781910979143 (electronic book) |
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1910979147 (electronic book) |
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