Miscarriages of justice in Canada : causes, responses, remedies / Kathryn M. Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Campbell, Kathryn M. (Kathryn Maria), 1960- author.

Contributor:

Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

False imprisonment.

Judicial error.

Canada.

Judicial error--Canada.

False imprisonment--Canada.

Physical Description:

xvi, 423 pages ; 26 cm

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo ; London : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Summary:

"Innocent people are regularly convicted of crimes they did not commit. A number of systemic factors have been found to contribute to wrongful convictions, including eyewitness misidentification, false confessions, informant testimony, official misconduct, and faulty forensic evidence. In Miscarriages of Justice in Canada, Kathryn M. Campbell offers an extensive overview of wrongful convictions, bringing together current sociological, criminological, and legal research, as well as current case-law examples. For the first time, information on all known and suspected cases of wrongful conviction in Canada is included and interspersed with discussions of how wrongful convictions happen, how existing remedies to rectify them are inadequate, and how those who have been victimized by these errors are rarely compensated. Campbell reveals that the causes of wrongful convictions are, in fact, avoidable, and that those in the criminal justice system must exercise greater vigilance and openness to the possibility of error if the problem of wrongful conviction is to be resolved."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Part 1 Factors Contributiong to Miscarriages of Justice

2 Eyewitness Identification and Misidentification 25

3 The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful Convictions: Police 50

4 The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful Convictions: Prosecutors, Defence Counsel, and the Judiciary 61

5 False Confessions 84

6 Jailhouse Informants 107

Part 2 Evidentiary Detection Methods: Missteand Innovations

7 DNA Evidence: Raising the Bar 133

8 Forensic Evidence and Expert Testimony 156

Part 3 Responses to Miscarriages of Justice

9 Conventional Remedies through the Courts and Conviction Review 191

10 Commissions of Inquiry: Lessons Learned 210

11 Compensation: The "Obstacle Course" 234

12 The Impact of Public Lobbying on Wrongful Convictions: The Role of the Media, Lobby Groups, and Innocence Projects 249

13 Lessons from Other Jurisdictions 268

14 Final Conclusions 288.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Anne and Joseph Trachtman Memorial Book Fund.

ISBN:

9780802091246

0802091245

9780802094063

0802094066

OCLC:

1030591385