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Controversies in Innocence Cases in America

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Controversies in Innocence Cases in America book

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America

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Controversies in Innocence Cases in America book

BySarah Lucy Cooper
Edition 1st Edition
First Published 2014
eBook Published 13 May 2016
Pub. location London
Imprint Routledge
DOI https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574103
Pages 246 pages
eBook ISBN 9781315574103
SubjectsArea Studies, Law, Social Sciences
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Cooper, S. (2014). Controversies in Innocence Cases in America. London: Routledge, https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315574103

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation, and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors, many of whom work on these cases daily, investigate contemporary issues presented by innocence cases and the exoneration movement as a whole. These issues include the challenges faced by the movement, causes of wrongful convictions, problems associated with investigating, proving, and defining 'innocence', and theories of reform. Each issue is placed within a multi-disciplinary perspective to provide cogent observations and recommendations for the effective handling of these cases, and for what changes should be adopted in order to improve the American criminal justice system when it is faced with its most harrowing sight: an innocent defendant.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

part I|37 pages

The Rise of the Innocence Movement in America

chapter 1|18 pages

Innocence Found

The New Revolution in American Criminal Justice
ByKeith A. Findley

chapter 2|18 pages

The Innocence Network

From Beginning to Branding
ByJacqueline McMurtrie

part II|81 pages

How Are Innocent People Convicted? Common Causes of Wrongful Convictions

chapter 3|16 pages

Eyewitnesses and Erroneous Convictions

An American Conundrum
ByJules Epstein

chapter 4|16 pages

Disputed Interrogation Techniques in America

True and False Confessions and the Estimation and Valuation of Type I and II Errors
ByDeborah Davis, Richard A. Leo, Michael J. Williams

chapter 5|14 pages

Innocence and the Suppression of Exculpatory Evidence by Prosecutors

ByLissa Griffin

chapter 6|34 pages

The Two-Legged Stool

The Asymmetry of American Aid for the Rule of Law and the Risk of Wrongful Conviction
ByCarrie Leonetti

part III|52 pages

Reality Bites

Problems with Investigating, Proving and Defining Innocence122

chapter 7|16 pages

The Emerging Role of Innocence Lawyer and the Need for Role-Differentiated Standards of Professional Conduct

ByD. Michael Risinger, Lesley C. Risinger

chapter 8|20 pages

When Finality and Innocence Collide

ByCarrie Sperling

chapter 9|14 pages

Narrowing the Construction of “Innocence”

Societal and Constitutional Consequences
ByFrancine Banner

part IV|45 pages

Innocence Reform

chapter 10|22 pages

Towards a Theory of Innocence Policy Reform

ByNancy Marion, Marvin Zalman

chapter 11|22 pages

Innocence Commissions in America

Ten Years After
BySarah Lucy Cooper
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