Guilty Until Proved Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy
| Autor: | Donal E. J. MacNamara, Arye Rattner, C. Ronald Huff, Edward Sagarin |
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| Rok vydání: | 1986 |
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050901 criminology 05 social sciences Subject (philosophy) Human factors and ergonomics Poison control Public policy Suicide prevention Democracy Pathology and Forensic Medicine Political science Law Conviction 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences 0509 other social sciences 050104 developmental & child psychology media_common Criminal justice |
| Zdroj: | Crime & Delinquency. 32:518-544 |
| ISSN: | 1552-387X 0011-1287 |
| Popis: | Few problems can pose a greater threat to free, democratic societies than that of wrongful conviction—the conviction of an innocent person. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to this problem, perhaps because of our understandable concern with the efficiency and effectiveness of the criminal justice system in combatting crime. Drawing on our own database of nearly 500 cases of wrongful conviction, our survey of criminal justice officials, and our review of extant literature on the subject, we address three major questions: (1) How frequent is wrongful conviction? (2) What are its major causes? and (3) What policy implications may be derived from this study? |
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