Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice : causes and remedies in North American and European criminal justice systems / edited by C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias.
Publisher's description: This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias' earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways: (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broad...
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New York, NY :
Routledge,
2013.
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Table of Contents:
- Foreword / Michael L. Radelet
- Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice in comparative perspective : preface and introduction / C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias
- WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE : CAUSES AND FREQUENCY: Wrongful convictions in a world of miscarriages of justice / Brian Forst
- How many false convictions are there? : how many exonerations are there? / Samuel Gross
- Errors occur everywhere--but not at the same frequency : the role of procedural systems in wrongful convictions / Martin Killias
- Trial and error / Brandon L. Garrett
- The prosecutor and wrongful convictions : misplaced priorities, misconduct, immunity, and remedies / Jim Petro, Nancy Petro
- Forensic science and wrongful convictions / Simon A. Cole, William C. Thompson
- The importance of having a logical framework for expert conclusions in forensic DNA profiling : illustrations from the Amanda Knox case / Joëlle Vuille, Alex Biedermann, Franco Taroni
- Tunnel vision, belief perseverance and bias confirmation : only human? / Chrisje Brants
- "Voluntary" false confessions as a source of wrongful convictions : the case of Spain / Marcelo F. Aebi, Claudia Campistol
- The changing face of miscarriages of justice : preventive detention strategies in Canada and the United States / Kathryn M. Campbell
- The risks of summary proceedings, plea bargains, and penal orders in producing wrongful convictions in the U.S. and Europe / Gwladys Gilliéron.
- WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE : CONSEQUENCES AND REMEDIES: Life after exoneration : examining the aftermath of a wrongful capital conviction / Saundra D. Westervelt, Kimberly J. Cook
- More procedure and concern about innocence but less justice? : remedies for wrongful convictions in the United States and Canada / Kent Roach
- The rocky road to reform : state innocence studies and the Pennsylvania story / Spero T. Lappas, Elizabeth F. Loftus
- Edwin Borchard and the limits of innocence reform / Marvin Zalman
- Wrongful convictions, miscarriages of justice, and political repression : challenges for transitional justice / C. Ronald Huff
- WRONGFUL CONVICTIONS AND MISCARRIAGES OF JUSTICE : CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS: Wrongful convictions, and miscarriages of justice : what did we learn? / Martin Killias, C. Ronald Huff.