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Narratives of guilt and innocence : the power of storytelling in wrongful conviction cases / Ralph Grunewald.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Grunewald, Ralph, author.
- Series:
- NYU Press scholarship online.
- NYU Press scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judicial error--United States.
- Judicial error.
- Judicial error--Germany.
- Post-conviction remedies--United States.
- Post-conviction remedies.
- Post-conviction remedies--Germany.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New York University Press, [2023]
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- Wrongful convictions have been studied primarily through the lenses of law, psychology, and the social sciences. Though scholarship has established canonical factors that help explain why the innocent are convicted, a very simple question has not been answered: How is it possible that prosecutors can convince juries and themselves of the guilt of an innocent defendant, often even against strong exculpatory evidence? This book seeks to address this crucial question by highlighting the narrative blueprint of a given criminal justice system and then how the power of narrative influences how police, prosecutors, juries, and judges construct legal reality and the evidence for it.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Realms of Truth and Justice
- 1. Discourses of Guilt and Innocence: The Innocence Movement as a Narrative Movement
- 2. Speaking of the Truth: Law, Narratology, and the Narrative Imagination
- 3. The Evidentiary Power of Stories: Narrativizing Guilt in an Adversarial System
- 4. Storytelling in an Inquisitorial System: Truer Stories?
- 5. Anatomy of a German Wrongful Conviction: Failing Truth?
- 6. Conclusion: The Ultimate Dystopia or Toward a Narrative of Legal Truth?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on December 1, 2023).
- ISBN:
- 1-4798-1823-2
- OCLC:
- 1411754141
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