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

• Pubblicazione: New York, NY, : Routledge, 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (433 p.)
• Disciplina: 345/.0122
• Soggetto topico: Criminal justice, Administration of - North America; Criminal justice, Administration of - Europe; Judicial error - North America; Judicial error - Europe
• Altri autori: HuffC. Ronald KilliasMartin
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. I. Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice : causes and frequency -- pt. II. Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice : consequences and remedies -- pt. III. Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice : conclusions and recommendations.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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 more in-
• Titolo autorizzato: Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice
• ISBN: 1-135-07225-6; 0-203-59728-1; 1-299-27962-7; 1-135-07226-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910822072203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Criminology and Justice Studies