Addressing the specific issues surrounding wrongful convictions and their implications for society, Convicted but Innocent includes: survey data concerning the possible magnitude of the problem and its causes; fascinating actual case samples; detailed analyses of the major factors associated with wrongful conviction; discussion of public policy implications; and recommendations for reducing the occurrence of such convictions. The authors maintain that while no system of justice can be perfect, a focus on preventable errors can substantially reduce the number of current conviction injustices.
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During the 1980s and early 1990s, the American conscience was shaken by a number of instances that cast doubt on a cherished belief-that innocent people are seldom, if ever, convicted and imprisoned, and they are certainly not executed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prosecutorial overzealousness, eyewitness misidentification, eyewitness error, convicted innocents, wrongful conviction, eyewitness identification, due process model, lineup identification, index crimes, false conviction, wrongful imprisonment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Bradley Cox, Policy Proposal, North Carolina, Detective Regan, Eighty-Eighth Street, George Whitmore, Steve Titus, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Dallas County, David Harris, Joyce Ann Brown, Ivan the Terrible, Lenell Geter, Ludovic Kennedy, Randall Adams, War Office, Father Pagano, Isidore Zimmerman, Janice Wylie, Leo Frank, Officer Wood, Philip Wylie, Randall Dale Adams New!
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During the 1980s and early 1990s, the American conscience was shaken by a number of instances that cast doubt on a cherished belief-that innocent people are seldom, if ever, convicted and imprisoned, and they are certainly not executed. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
prosecutorial overzealousness, eyewitness misidentification, eyewitness error, convicted innocents, wrongful conviction, eyewitness identification, due process model, lineup identification, index crimes, false conviction, wrongful imprisonment Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
United States, New York, Bradley Cox, Policy Proposal, North Carolina, Detective Regan, Eighty-Eighth Street, George Whitmore, Steve Titus, Bruno Richard Hauptmann, Dallas County, David Harris, Joyce Ann Brown, Ivan the Terrible, Lenell Geter, Ludovic Kennedy, Randall Adams, War Office, Father Pagano, Isidore Zimmerman, Janice Wylie, Leo Frank, Officer Wood, Philip Wylie, Randall Dale Adams New!
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- Ten Rillington Place by Ludovic Kennedy on page 8, page 78, and Back Matter
- The Holocaust, the French, and the Jews by Susan Zuccotti on page 26, and Back Matter
- The Airman and the Carpenter: The Lindbergh Kidnapping and the Framing of Richard Hauptman by Ludovic Kennedy on page 2, and page 30
- The Limits of the Criminal Sanction by Herbert Packer in Front Matter, and page 144
- Trial of Ivan the Terrible: State of Israel Versus John Demjanjuk by Tom Teicholz on page 46, and Back Matter
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- Justice for All?: Jews and Arabs in the Israeli Criminal Justice System by Gideon Fishman on page 113, and Back Matter
- Rubin "Hurricane" Carter and the American Justice System by Paul B. Wice in Back Matter
- The Japanese Way of Justice: Prosecuting Crime in Japan (Studies on Law and Social Control) by David T. Johnson in Back Matter
- Black Rage in the American Prison System (Criminal Justice: Recent Scholarship) by Rosevelt L. Noble in Back Matter
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