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Understand how the Nassar case impacts your sports medicine department
Author(s) -
O'Brien Timothy
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
college athletics and the law
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1943-7579
pISSN - 1552-8774
DOI - 10.1002/catl.30488
Subject(s) - conviction , misconduct , sexual misconduct , criminology , law , medicine , psychology , political science
This past year brought forward a tsunami of sexual misconduct charges in the sports medicine field, resulting in the arrest and conviction of the physician involved (Larry Nassar), the removal of and criminal charges against his supervisor (a dean at the university), and the resignations of the athletics director and the university president, among other consequences.