03257pam 2200397 a 450 991022225960332120230829004411.00-8135-2952-2(CKB)3390000000018433(MH)008653705-9(EXLCZ)99339000000001843320000912d2001 uy 0engWrongly convicted perspectives on failed justice /edited by Saundra D. Westervelt, John A. Humphrey ; with a foreword by Michael L. Radelet[electronic resource]New Brunswick, N.J. Rutgers University Pressc20011 online resource (xiv, 301 p. )Includes bibliographical references and index.Foreword /Michael L. Radelet --Introduction /John A. Humphrey and Saundra D. Westervelt --Part I.Causes of wrongful convictions --Misinformation and wrongful convictions /George Castelle and Elizabeth F. Loftus --False confessions : causes, consequences, and solutions /Richard A. Leo --From the jailhouse to the courthouse : the role of informants in wrongful convictions /Clifford S. Zimmerman --The police role in wrongful convictions : an international comparative study /Diane L. Martin --Part II.The social characteristics of the wrongly convicted --Who are the wrongly convicted on death row? /William M. Holmes --Racial bias and the conviction of the innocent /Karen F. Parker, Mari A. Dewees, and Michael L. Radelet --Part III.The faces of the wrongly convicted : case studies --More than a reasonable doubt : the trial and execution of Frank Ewing /Margaret Vandiver --No appeal from the grave : innocence, capital punishment, and the lessons of history /James R. Acker, Thomas Brewer, Eamon Cunningham, Allison Fitzgerald, Jamie Flexon, Julie Lombard, Barbara Ryn, and Bivette Stodghill --Whodudnit? an examination of the production of wrongful convictions /William S. LofquistPart IV.Visions for change in the twenty-first centuryBack from the courthouse : corrective measures to address the role of informants in wrongful convictions /Clifford Zimmerman --Effective assistance of counsel /Adele Bernhard --DNA and innocence scholorship /Barry Scheck and Peter Neufeld --The adversary system and historical accuracy : can we do better? /Daniel Givelber --Erroneous convictions and the death penalty /Michael L. Radelet and Hugo Adam Bedau.Wrongly ConvictedTrialsUnited StatesJudicial errorUnited StatesCriminal justice, Administration ofUnited StatesTrialsJudicial errorCriminal justice, Administration of364.973Westervelt Saundra Davis1968-876773Humphrey John A876774DLCDLCDLCBOOK9910222259603321Wrongly convicted1957684UNINAThis Record contains information from the Harvard Library Bibliographic Dataset, which is provided by the Harvard Library under its Bibliographic Dataset Use Terms and includes data made available by, among others the Library of Congress