Wrongful Conviction: Law, Science, and Policy (CAP) 2019
- Publisher:
- Carolina Academic Press
- Publication date:
- 2019-09-14
- ISBN:
- 978-1-531002-25-1
Index
- Front Matter
- Table of Cases
- Acknowledgments
- Part One Introduction and Overview of the Criminal Justice Decision-Making Process
- Chapter 1 The Problem of Wrongful Conviction
- Chapter 2 Wrongful Convictions and the Criminal Justice Process: Decision Points and Decision-Makers
- Part Two The Leading Correlates and Causes of Wrongful Convictions
- Chapter 3 Eyewitness Identification
- Chapter 4 False Confessions
- Chapter 5 Prosecutors, Police, and Preservation of Evidence
- Chapter 6 Counsel for the Defense
- Chapter 7 Scientific and Forensic Evidence
- Chapter 8 Informants
- Part Three Adjudication; Capital Cases; Post-Adjudication Detection and Redress
- Chapter 9 Adjudication: Trials and Guilty Pleas
- Chapter 10 Capital Cases
- Chapter 11 Beyond Adjudication: Clemency, Innocence Commissions, and the Aftermath of Exoneration
- About the Authors
- Index