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1 online resource (433 pages) |
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Criminology and Justice Studies |
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Criminology and justice studies.
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| Contents |
Cover; Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgments; Foreword; Chapter 1 Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice in Comparative Perspective: Preface and Introduction; Part I: Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes And Frequency; Chapter 2 Wrongful Convictions in a World of Miscarriages of Justice; Chapter 3 How Many False Convictions are There? How Many Exonerations are There?; Chapter 4 Errors Occur Everywhere-But not at the Same Frequency: The Role of Procedural Systems in Wrongful Convictions |
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Chapter 5 Trial and ErrorChapter 6 The Prosecutor and Wrongful Convictions: Misplaced Priorities, Misconduct, Immunity, and Remedies; Chapter 7 Forensic Science and Wrongful Convictions; Chapter 8 The Importance of Having a Logical Framework for Expert Conclusions in Forensic DNA Profiling: Illustrations from the Amanda Knox Case; Chapter 9 Tunnel Vision, Belief Perseverance and Bias Confirmation: Only Human?; Chapter 10 "Voluntary" False Confessions as a source of Wrongful Convictions: The Case of Spain |
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Chapter 11 The Changing Face of miscarriages of Justice: Preventive Detention Strategies in Canada and the United StatesChapter 12 The Risks of Summary Proceedings, Plea Bargains, and Penal Orders in Producing Wrongful Convictions in the U.S. and Europe; Part II: Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Consequences and Remedies; Chapter 13 Life After Exoneration: Examining the Aftermath of a Wrongful Capital Conviction; Chapter 14 More Procedure and Concern About Innocence but Less Justice?: Remedies for Wrongful Convictions in the United States and Canada |
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Chapter 15 The Rocky Road to Reform: State Innocence Studies and the Pennsylvania StoryChapter 16 Edwin Borchard and the Limits of Innocence Reform; Chapter 17 Wrongful Convictions, Miscarriages of Justice, and Political Repression: Challenges for Transitional Justice; Part III: Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Conclusions and Recommendations; Chapter 18 Wrongful Convictions, and Miscarriages of Justice -- What Did We Learn?; About the Contributors; Index |
| Summary |
This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias' earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways:? (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of miscarriages of justice and provides discussions of different types of miscarriages of justice that have not previously received much scholarly attention by criminologists; (2) it addresses, in much greater detail, the questions of how, and how often, wrongful convictions occur; (3) it provides more in- |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- North America.
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Criminal justice, Administration of -- Europe
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Judicial error -- North America
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Judicial error -- Europe
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Criminal justice, Administration of
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Judicial error
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Europe
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North America
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Killias, Martin
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| ISBN |
9781135072261 |
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1135072264 |
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