BOOKS & OTHER MEDIA
ESSENTIAL READING & RESOURCES
This collection of books, podcasts, digital content, and other media discusses wrongful allegations of child abuse and neglect and provides essential information regarding complex medical conditions. This media does not belong to the Family Justice Resource Center (unless otherwise marked). Links to view, purchase, or sample media are included under each title.
Protecting Your Child from the Child Protection System
What it is, the way it works, and how to navigate your way through it.
Book
Accused: Guilty or Innocent?
Season 2, Episode 4 – Abusive Father or Birth Trauma?
Television
Do No Harm
Six-Part Series Covering the Experiences of Two Families Wrongly Accused of Abusing Their Children.
Podcast
Child Abuse: Medical Diagnosis and Management
Antoinette Laskey, MD, MPH, MBA, FAAP, Andrew Sirotnak, MD, FAAP
Book
The Forensic Unreliability of the Shaken Baby Syndrome
Shaken baby syndrome is a highly controversial, unproven, shifting set of hypotheses that are unreliable for legal purposes.
Book
The Syndrome
An explosive documentary focused on a team of doctors who expose the junk science behind an unprecedented criminal justice crisis.
Television
Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward
A detailed plan for addressing these needs and suggests the creation of a new government entity to establish and enforce standards within the forensic science community.