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Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice : causes and remedies in North American and European criminal justice systems / edited by C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias.
Van Pelt Library HV9960.N7 W76 2013
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Criminology and justice studies
- Criminology and justice studies series
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Criminal justice, Administration of--North America.
- Criminal justice, Administration of.
- Judicial error.
- North America.
- Criminal justice, Administration of--Europe.
- Europe.
- Judicial error--North America.
- Judicial error--Europe.
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 431 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Routledge, 2013.
- Contents:
- Foreword / Michael L. Radelet
- Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice in comparative perspective: preface and introduction / C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias
- Wrongful convictions in a world of miscarriages of justice / Brian Forst
- How many false convictions are there? How many exonerations are there? / Samuel Gross
- Errors occur everywhere - but not at the same frequency: the role of procedural systems in wrongful convictions / Martin Killias
- Trial and error / Brandon L. Garrett
- The prosecutor and wrongful convictions: misplaced priorities, misconduct, immunity, and remedies / Jim Petro and Nancy Petro
- Forensic science and wrongful convictions / Simon A. Cole and William C. Thompson
- The importance of having a logical framework for expert conclusions in forensic DNA profiling: illustrations from the Amanda Knox case / Joëlle Vuille, Alex Biedermann, and Franco Taroni
- Tunnel vision, belief perseverance and bias confirmation: only human? / Chrisje Brants
- "Voluntary" false confessions as a source of wrongful convictions: the case of Spain / Marcelo F. Aebi and Claudia Campistol
- The changing face of miscarriages of justice: preventive detention strategies in Canada and the United States / Kathryn M. Campbell
- The risks of summary proceedings, plea bargains, and penal orders in producing wrongful convictions in the U.S. and Europe / Gwladys Gilliéron
- Life after exoneration: examining the aftermath of a wrongful capital conviction / Saundra D. Westervelt and Kimberly J. Cook
- More procedure and concern about innocence but less justice?: remedies for wrongful convictions in the United States and Canada / Kent Roach
- The rocky road to reform: state innocence studies and the Pennsylvania story / Spero T. Lappas and Elizabeth F. Loftus
- Edwin Borchard and the limits of innocence reform / Marvin Zalman
- Wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice, and political repression: challenges for transitional justice / C. Ronald Huff
- Wrongful convictions, and miscarriages of justice - what did we learn? / Martin Killias and C. Ronald Huff.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780415539937
- 0415539935
- 9780415539951
- 0415539951
- 9780203597286
- 0203597281
- OCLC:
- 774497958
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