A cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictions. It offers discussions of specific legal systems and considers issues that transcend national boundaries. It also offers suggestions for compensating more fairly those who are wrongfully convicted.
A cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictions. It offers discussions of specific lega...
This is a collection of essays that analyse cases of injustice across an array of legal systems. Differences in court procedure are explained as the contributors ask what role the respective criminal justice systems play in preventing or generating wrongful convictions.
This is a collection of essays that analyse cases of injustice across an array of legal systems. Differences in court procedure are explained as the c...
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 broader contextual framework of miscarriages of justice and provides discussions of different types of miscarriages of justice that have not previously received much scholarly attention by criminologists; (2) it addresses, in much greater detail, the questions of how, and how often, wrongful convictions occur; (3) it provides...
This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias' earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of importan...
