RT Book
T1 The wrongful convictions reader
A2 Covey, Russell D.
A2 Beety, Valena
LA English
PP Durham, North Carolina
PB Carolina Academic Press
YR 2019
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1645649490
AB Prologue to wrongful convictions -- Defining innocence and miscarriages of justice -- Overview of the causes of wrongful convictions -- The innocence "myth" and the costs of preventing wrongful convictions -- Eyewitness misidentifications -- False confessions -- Scientific standards, statistical evidence, and the future of forensic science -- DNA and junk science -- Informants and snitches -- Police and prosecutorial misconduct -- Incompetent lawyering -- Cognitive bias and tunnel vision -- Guilty pleas, pretrial procedure, and innocence -- Appellate and post-conviction review of innocence -- Innocence, equitable tolling, and procedural default -- Intersections: race, gender, sexual orientation and innocence -- Reconsidering innocence: rethinking causes and addressing consequences
CN KF9756
SN 9781531006327
K1 Judicial error : United States
K1 Criminal justice, Administration of : Corrupt practices : United States
K1 Criminal Investigation : Corrupt practices : United States
K1 Forensic sciences : United States
K1 USA : Strafjustiz : Strafverfahren : Fehlurteil : Justizirrtum