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Hahnemann, Maria, Tolasch, Eva, Feld, Katharina and Wittschieber, Daniel (2022). Violence against children by means of shaken baby syndrome: Criminal-sociological studies on the socio-economic state of suspects who made a confession. Monatssc. Kriminol. Strafrechtsreform, 105 (2). S. 164 - 173. BERLIN: WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH. ISSN 2366-1968

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Abstract

The shaken baby syndrome (SBS) is a common variant of the abusive head trauma in infants and toddlers, and it represents a particularly severe form of child abuse. Little is known about the socio-economic background of confessed perpetrators of SBS.The basis of the case collective, which was composed by using a multi-center approach including three institutes of legal medicine, were 72 expert reports in closed SBS cases on living infants and toddlers between 2006 and 2015. The actual study cohort comprises 16 suspects (4 women and 12 men), who had previously been identified during a comprehensive analysis of case-associated court files and who had confessed during the criminal proceeding.In the present study, a confession was predominantly made by suspects with a low state of education, with a low level of the working status, and with a low income. A low state of these three parameters basically corresponds to a low socio-economic state. Thus, only those people were willing to make a confession. It was striking that persons with a higher socio-economic state could not be found in the present study sample and, accordingly, those people did not make a confession.Therefore, the present data support the hypothesis that the willingness of making a confession to child abuse could be relatively small in higher social classes compared with persons having a lower socio-economic state. The aspects of the >> selective visibility of perpetrators << should be taken into account in preventive concepts.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Hahnemann, Maria UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tolasch, Eva UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Feld, Katharina UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Wittschieber, Daniel UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-666255
DOI:	10.1515/mks-2021-0145
Journal or Publication Title:	Monatssc. Kriminol. Strafrechtsreform
Volume:	105
Number:	2
Page Range:	S. 164 - 173
Date:	2022
Publisher:	WALTER DE GRUYTER GMBH
Place of Publication:	BERLIN
ISSN:	2366-1968
Language:	German
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Criminology & Penology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/66625