Miscarriages of Justice in Canada : Causes, Responses, Remedies / Kathryn Campbell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Cotler, Irwin, Contributor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Judicial error--Canada.

Judicial error.

False imprisonment--Canada.

False imprisonment.

Canada.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (440 pages)

Place of Publication:

Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

List of Tables

Foreword / Cotler, Irwin

Acknowledgments

1. Introduction

Part One: Factors Contributiong to Miscarriages of Justice

2. Eyewitness Identification and Misidentification

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

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

5. False Confessions

6. Jailhouse Informants

Part Two: Evidentiary Detection Methods: Missteps and Innovations

7. DNA Evidence: Raising the Bar

8. Forensic Evidence and Expert Testimony

Part Three: Responses to Miscarriages of Justice

9. Conventional Remedies through the Courts and Conviction Review

10. Commissions of Inquiry: Lessons Learned

11. Compensation: The “Obstacle Course”

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

13. Lessons from Other Jurisdictions

14. Final Conclusions

Appendix A: Wrongful Convictions in Canada

Appendix B: The Inquiry regarding Thomas Sophonow: Eyewitness Identification – Recommendations

Appendix C: Federal/Provincial/Territorial Heads of Prosecution Committee Working Group (2005), Recommendations regarding the Use of Eyewitness Identification Evidence

Appendix D: Canadian Judicial Council, National Judicial Institute: Eyewitness Identification Evidence, Model Jury Instructions

Appendix E: Canada’s 1988 Federal-Provincial Guidelines on Compensation for Wrongfully Convicted and Imprisoned Persons

Notes

Legislation and Case Citations

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Aug 2018)

ISBN:

1-4875-1457-3

1-4875-1456-5

OCLC:

1041905129