ABSTRACT
Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform is an important addition to the literature and teaching on innocence reform. This book delves into wrongful convictions studies but expands upon them by offering potential reforms that would alleviate the problem of wrongful convictions in the criminal justice system. Written to be accessible to students, Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform is a main text for wrongful convictions courses or a secondary text for more general courses in criminal justice, political science, and law school innocence clinics.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|81 pages
Prelude: Approaches to Innocence Reform
chapter 4|17 pages
An Etiology of Wrongful Convictions
part II|33 pages
Institutions of Innocence Reform
part III|179 pages
Ihanging the Criminal Justice System
section I|37 pages
Police Investigation and Wrongful Convictions
chapter 8|18 pages
Policies, Procedures, and the Police
section II|21 pages
Forensic Science's Reform Agenda
section III|20 pages
Prosecution Reactions to Innocence
section IV|19 pages
Defense Counsel
chapter 12|17 pages
Public Defense in an Age of Innocence
section V|19 pages
New Models of Adjudication and Appeal
chapter 13|17 pages
Investigative Procedure and Post-Conviction Review
section VI|19 pages
New Models for Establishing Innocence Post-Conviction
chapter 14|17 pages
The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission
section VII|19 pages
Death Penalty Directions
section VIII|17 pages
Exoneree Compensation
part IV|13 pages
Summation
