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The Wrongful Convictions Reader
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Author : Russell D. Covey
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2018-10
The Wrongful Convictions Reader written by Russell D. Covey and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-10 with Criminal investigation categories.
Fueled by more than 2,000 exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, the "innocence revolution" is shaking the criminal justice system to its core. By gathering the leading research, law, and policy analysis into one volume, The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful convictions: false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, and ineffective assistance of counsel.
The Cadaver King And The Country Dentist
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Author : Radley Balko
language : en
Publisher: PublicAffairs
Release Date : 2018-02-27
The Cadaver King And The Country Dentist written by Radley Balko and has been published by PublicAffairs this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-27 with History categories.
A shocking and deeply reported account of the persistent plague of institutional racism and junk forensic science in our criminal justice system, and its devastating effect on innocent lives After two three-year-old girls were raped and murdered in rural Mississippi, law enforcement pursued and convicted two innocent men: Kennedy Brewer and Levon Brooks. Together they spent a combined thirty years in prison before finally being exonerated in 2008. Meanwhile, the real killer remained free. The Cadaver King and the Country Dentist recounts the story of how the criminal justice system allowed this to happen, and of how two men, Dr. Steven Hayne and Dr. Michael West, built successful careers on the back of that structure. For nearly two decades, Hayne, a medical examiner, performed the vast majority of Mississippi's autopsies, while his friend Dr. West, a local dentist, pitched himself as a forensic jack-of-all-trades. Together they became the go-to experts for prosecutors and helped put countless Mississippians in prison. But then some of those convictions began to fall apart. Here, Radley Balko and Tucker Carrington tell the haunting story of how the courts and Mississippi's death investigation system -- a relic of the Jim Crow era -- failed to deliver justice for its citizens. The authors argue that bad forensics, structural racism, and institutional failures are at fault, raising sobering questions about our ability and willingness to address these crucial issues.
Surviving Justice
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: McSweeney's
Release Date : 2015-10-01
Surviving Justice written by and has been published by McSweeney's this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-01 with History categories.
On September 30, 2003, Calvin was declared innocent and set free from Angola State Prison, after serving 22 years for a crime he did not commit. Like many other exonerees, Calvin experienced a new world that was not open to him. Hitting the streets without housing, money, or a change of clothes, exonerees across America are released only to fend for themselves. In the tradition of Studs Terkel's oral histories, this book collects the voices and stories of the exonerees for whom life — inside and out — is forever framed by extraordinary injustice
Prosecution Complex
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Author : Daniel S. Medwed
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2012
Prosecution Complex written by Daniel S. Medwed and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Law categories.
Combining his hands-on experience in the courtroom and his role as a teacher and scholar in the classroom, Medwed shows how prosecutors are told to lock up criminals and protect the rights of defendants. 'Prosecution Complex' explains why, while most prosecutors aim to do justice, only some hit that target consistently.
Justice Miscarried
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Author : Helena Katz
language : en
Publisher: Dundurn
Release Date : 2011-06-14
Justice Miscarried written by Helena Katz and has been published by Dundurn this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-06-14 with Social Science categories.
Former bank manager Ronald Dalton never got to watch his three young children grow up. In 1989 he was convicted for a crime that never happened. His wife, Brenda, was later ruled to have choked to death on breakfast cereal not strangled as a pathologist had initially claimed. Dalton’s daughter, Alison, was in kindergarten when he was charged with second-degree murder in 1988. He attended her high school graduation on June 26, 2000, two days after his conviction was finally overturned. Behind the proud facade of Canada’s criminal justice system lie the shattered lives of the people unjustly caught within its web. Justice Miscarried tells the heartwrenching stories of twelve innocent Canadians, including David Milgaard, Donald Marshall, Guy Paul Morin, Clayton Johnson, William Mullins-Johnson, and Thomas Sophonow, who were wrongly convicted and the errors in the nations justice system that changed their lives forever.
Deliberate Injustice
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Author : Bob Henige
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017-09
Deliberate Injustice written by Bob Henige and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-09 with categories.
Actual Innocence
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Author : Jim Dwyer
language : en
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Release Date : 2000
Actual Innocence written by Jim Dwyer and has been published by Doubleday Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Law categories.
Ten true tales of people falsely accused detail the flaws in the criminal justice system that landed these people in prison
Duped
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Author : Saul Kassin
language : en
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Release Date : 2022-06-15
Duped written by Saul Kassin and has been published by Rowman & Littlefield this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-06-15 with Psychology categories.
Why do people confess to crimes they did not commit? And, surely, those cases must be rare? In fact, it happens all the time—in police stations, workplaces, public schools, and the military. Psychologist Saul Kassin, the world’s leading expert on false confessions, explains how interrogators trick innocent people into confessing, and then how the criminal justice system deludes us into believing these confessions. Duped reveals how innocent men, women, and children, intensely stressed and befuddled by lawful weapons of psychological interrogation, are induced into confession, no matter how horrific the crime. By featuring riveting case studies, highly original research, work by the Innocence Project, and quotes from real-life exonerees, Kassin tells the story of how false confessions happen, and how they corrupt forensics, witnesses, and other evidence, force guilty pleas, and follow defendants for their entire lives— even after they are exonerated by DNA. Starting in the 1980’s, Dr. Kassin pioneered the scientific study of interrogations and confessions. Since then, he has been on the forefront of research and advocacy for those wrongfully convicted by police-induced false confessions. Examining famous cases like the Central Park jogger case and Amanda Knox case, as well as stories of ordinary innocent people trapped into confession, Dr. Kassin exposes just how widespread this problem is. Concluding with actionable solutions and proposals for legislative reform, Duped shows why the stigma of confession persists and how we can reform the criminal justice system to make it stop.
False Justice
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Author : Jim Petro
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2014-07-11
False Justice written by Jim Petro and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-07-11 with Social Science categories.
Compelling and engagingly written, this book by former Attorney General of Ohio Jim Petro and his wife, writer Nancy Petro, takes the reader inside actual cases, summarizes extensive research on the causes and consequences of wrongful conviction, and exposes eight common myths that inspire false confidence in the justice system and undermine reform. Now published in paperback with an extensive list of web links to wrongful conviction sources internationally, False Justice is ideal for use in a wide array of criminal justice and criminology courses. Myth 1: Everyone in prison claims innocence. Myth 2: Our system almost never convicts an innocent person. Myth 3: Only the guilty confess. Myth 4: Wrongful conviction is the result of innocent human error. Myth 5: An eyewitness is the best testimony. Myth 6: Conviction errors get corrected on appeal. Myth 7: It dishonors the victim to question a conviction. Myth 8: If the justice system has problems, the pros will fix them.
The Wrongful Convictions Reader
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Author : Russell D. Covey
language : en
Publisher: Carolina Academic Press LLC
Release Date : 2022
The Wrongful Convictions Reader written by Russell D. Covey and has been published by Carolina Academic Press LLC this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Law categories.
"Fueled by more than 2,000 exonerations of wrongfully convicted men and women, the "innocence revolution" has shaken the criminal justice system to its core. By gathering the leading research, law, and policy analysis into one volume, The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful convictions: false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, and ineffective assistance of counsel. Each chapter is divided into three sections: Readings Current Law Overview-which summarizes the key cases in the area, and Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media-which provides relevant experiential activities. Examples from the Legal Materials, Exercises, and Media sections include: Recommended listening and viewing: timed excerpts from podcast episodes, films, and television clips Oral advocacy exercises: mock bail arguments, parole hearings, testimony before the state legislature, presentations to the state rules committee, appellate oral arguments Written advocacy exercises: practice motions and comparing state statutes Issue spotting exercises: transcripts from interrogations and in-court testimony Review: reflective essays, short answer questions, and true/false questions Team exercises: plea negotiations Discussion prompts Actual wrongful conviction case documents This combination of materials makes the book more than a mere "reader" and makes it ideal for doctrinal as well as experiential courses"--