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Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice

This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias' earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways:

• while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of miscarriages of justice and provides discussions of different types of miscarriages of justice that have not previously received much scholarly attention by criminologists;
• it addresses, in much greater detail, the questions of how, and how often, wrongful convictions occur;
• it provides more in-depth consideration of the role of forensic science in helping produce wrongful convictions and in helping free those who have been wrongfully convicted;
• it offers new insights into the origins and current progress of the innocence movement, as well as the challenges that await the exonerated when they return to free society;
• it assesses the impact of the use of alternatives to trials (especially plea bargains in the U.S. and summary proceedings and penal orders in Europe) in producing wrongful convictions;
• it considers how the U.S. and Canada have responded to 9/11 and the increased threat of terrorism by enacting legislation and adopting policies that may exacerbate the problem of wrongful conviction; and
• it provides in-depth considerations of two topics related to wrongful conviction: voluntary false confessions and convictions which, although technically not wrongful since they are based on law violations, represent another type of miscarriage of justice since they are due solely to unjust laws resulting from political repression.

C. Ronald Huff is Professor of Criminology, Law and Society and of Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is a Fellow and Past-President of The American Society of Criminology. His publications include more than 100 journal articles and book chapters and 12 other books. His current research focuses on wrongful convictions and gangs.

Martin Killias is Professor of Criminal Law, Procedure and Criminology at the University of Zurich. Over 25 years, he directed the Institute of Criminology at the University of Lausanne and served as a part-time judge at the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. His research has focused on comparative and experimental studies.

Huff and Killias provide a groundbreaking, comprehensive and innovative collection of top-notch research on wrongful convictions from a crossnational perspective. The book deserves to be in the personal libraries of all criminal justice scholars and should be required reading for students taking courses on topics such as comparative criminal justice or wrongful convictions.

- Talia Harmon, Criminal Justice, Niagara University

Extensive in its scope and coverage, this book provides a valuable extension to the scholarship on how wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice are to be understood and responded to. A must read for all those interested in the debate about public protection and public policy when justice goes wrong.

- Michael Naughton, Sociology and Law, University
of Bristol, Founder and Director, Innocence Network UK (INUK).

Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice is masterful in adding new material that broadens the wrongful convictions critique of the delivery of justice in the U.S. It draws from U.S. and Canadian experience to expand the possibilities for reform and includes especially strong chapters that deal with legal mechanisms found in court settings.

- Cathleen Burnett, Criminal Justice and
Criminology, University of MissouriKansas City

An essential read for anyone interested in wrongful convictions in the global context. This book does a particularly good job of helping the reader understand the difference between adversarial and inquisitorial systems of justice, and how each system contributes to or effectively combats wrongful convictions. The new edition includes many important updates, including the role of forensic science in causing, and then correcting, miscarriages of justice.

- Mark Godsey, Law, University of Cincinnati College of Law

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Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice: Causes and Remedies in North American and European Criminal Justice Systems

Edited by C. Ronald Huff, University of California, and Martin Killias, University of Zurich

First published 2013
by Routledge
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Simultaneously published in the UK
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice : causes and remedies in North American and European criminal justice systems / edited by C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias.
p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Criminal justice, Administration ofNorth America. 2. Criminal justice, Administration ofEurope. 3. Judicial errorNorth America. 4. Judicial errorEurope. I. Huff, C. Ronald. II. Killias, Martin.
HV9960.N7W76 2013
345.0122dc23
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