Wrongful conviction in sexual assault : stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and intra-familial child sexual assaults / Matthew Barry Johnson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Johnson, Matthew Barry, author.

Series:

Oxford clinical psychology.

Oxford clinical psychology

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial error--History--United States.

Judicial error.

Rape--History--United States--Law and legislation.

Rape.

Child sexual abuse--History--United States--Law and legislation.

Child sexual abuse.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (212 pages) : illustrations (black and white).

Place of Publication:

New York, New York : Oxford University Press, [2021]

Summary:

'Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault' examines the phenomenon of innocent defendants who are convicted of rape and related sexual offenses. It presents findings that indicate sexual offenses are highly overrepresented among confirmed wrongful convictions. Drawing from Innocence Project and National Registry of Exoneration data and supplemented by social science and historical sources, the investigation explores various processes that led to wrongful conviction, distinguishing the differential risk of wrongful conviction among stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and intra-familial child sexual assault.

Contents:

The modern politics of sexual assault prosecution

Rape and wrongful conviction

Race and rape prosecution in U.S. history

Serial rapists and wrongful conviction

Child sexual abuse hysteria

Processes, models, and concepts in wrongful conviction

Prospective and future directions.

Notes:

Also issued in print: 2020.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-065308-6

0-19-065306-X

0-19-065307-8