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Investigation of Political, Economic, and Social Conditions in Puerto Rico
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Narratives of Guilt and Innocence
Illustrates how the power of narrative influences how police, prosecutors, juries, and judges construct legal reality Wrongful convictions have been studied primarily through the lenses of law, psychology, and the social sciences. Though scholarship has established canonical factors that help explain why the innocent are convicted, a very simple question has not been answered: How is it possible that prosecutors can convince juries and themselves of the guilt of an innocent defendant, often even against strong exculpatory evidence? Narratives of Guilt and Innocence seeks to address this crucial question by highlighting the narrative blueprint of a given criminal justice system and then how t...
Anatomy of Innocence: Testimonies of the Wrongfully Convicted
Recalling the great muckrakers of the past, an outraged team of America’s best-selling writers unite to confront the disasters of wrongful convictions. Wrongful convictions, long regarded as statistical anomalies in an otherwise sound justice system, now appear with frightening regularity. But few people understand just how or why they happen and, more important, the immeasurable consequences that often haunt the lucky few who are acquitted, years after they are proven innocent. Now, in this groundbreaking anthology, fourteen exonerated inmates narrate their stories to a roster of high-profile mystery and thriller writers—including Lee Child, Sara Paretsky, Laurie R. King, Jan Burke and ...
The Case of the Phantom Bullet
Juan Rivera is a young Hispanic male who is arrested, accused of shooting two people to death on New Year's Eve in the small town of Ironton, Colorado. The evidence is damaging to Juan Rivera. As he sits in a jail cell inside of the Ironton Town Marshal's office, he waits to see what his fate will be. The town of Ironton has only one criminal defense attorney, Daniel Marcos. Although his specialty in law school at Denver University was Constitutional Law, the Bar Association certified him for criminal law. With the help of his secretary Lynn Lyons along with a very capable and beautiful Asian female private investigator named Jessica Kim, they try to unravel the events of that night in an ef...
Wrongful Conviction and Criminal Justice Reform
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.
