Overview
A cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictions
Full Product Details
Author: C. Ronald Huff ,
Martin Killias
Publisher: Temple University Press,U.S.
Imprint: Temple University Press,U.S.
Dimensions:
Width: 15.20cm
, Height: 2.50cm
, Length: 22.90cm
Weight: 0.431kg
ISBN: 9781592136469
ISBN 10: 159213646
Pages: 326
Publication Date: 15 January 2010
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
An important step in showing that even the best criminal justice systems occasionally convict the innocent. Huff and Killias, two of the world's most accomplished criminologists, have given us a collection of essays that are both first-rate and truly sobering -Michael L. Radelet, University of Colorado, and author of In Spite of Innocence
A fascinating and important study. Paul Martin, University of Oxford A real contribution to the existing literature. Lawrence Marshall, Stanford University Law School and co-founder of the Northwestern Center on Wrongful Convictions [W]rongful convictions are not solely an American issue, and the editors of this timely volume provide a cogent, as well as compelling, collection of articles that establishes international dimensions of this stain on the credibility of criminal justice practices. - Corrections Managers' Report, December/January 2009 Dedicated to the victims of wrongful convictions worldwide, the book is a must read for all persons involved in prosecutions, as well as judges, legal practitioners, medical and forensic examiners, and those interested in the protection of human rights. - CHOICE, May 2009 [A] major study...A key question raised by this book is the extent to which different legal systems are more or less effective in preventing (and where necessary, correcting) convictions of the factually innocent. This is a surpassingly difficult project, and the editors and authors of Wrongful Conviction are to be commended for taking it on...This volume makes an important contribution to the growing field of comparative criminal justice, and it can only be hoped that these and other authors will follow this research with further efforts to integrate knowledge of the phenomenon of wrongful convictions around the world. The Law and Politics Book Review, April 2009
Author Information
C. Ronald Huff is Dean of the School of Social Ecology and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society as well as Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Fellow and Past-President of the American Society of Criminology and the author of numerous scholarly articles and 12 books, including Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy. Martin Killias is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne, and a part-time Judge in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology in 2001. He has been the first President of the European Society of Criminology, co-founder of the International Crime Victim Surveys, and Chair of the European Sourcebook of Crime and Criminal Justice Statistics.
