Part I: Cross-National Perspectives and Issues
1. Introduction
2. Wrongful Conviction and Moral Panic: National and
International Prespectives on Organized Child Sexual
Abuse
3. Judicial Error and Forensic Science: Pondering the
Contribution of DNA Evidence
Part II: North American Perspectives and Issues
4. Wrongful Convictions in the United States
5. The Adversary System and Wrongful Conviction
6. Fatal Errors: Compelling Claims of Executions of the
Innocent in the Post-Furman Era
7. The Fallibility of Justice in Canada: A Critical
Examination of Conviction Review
Part III: European and Israeli Perspectives and
Issues
8. Wrongful Convictions in Switzerland: The Experience of a
Continental Law Country
9. The Vulnerability of Dutch Criminal Procedure to Wrongful
Conviction
10. Criminal Justice and Miscarriages of Justice in England and
Wales
11. A Comparative Analysis of Prosecution in Germany and the United
Kingdom: Searching for Truth or Getting a
Conviction?
12. Wrongful Conviction in France: The Limits of "Pourvoi en
Revision"
13. The Sanctity of Criminal Law: Thoughts and Reflections on
Wrongful Conviction in Israel
14. Wrongful Convictions in Poland: From the Communist Ero to
the Rechtstaat Experience
Part IV: Conclusions
15. Wrongful Convictions: Conclusions from an International
Overview
Contributors
Index
A cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictions
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.
"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 "Huff and Killias provide a thorough comparison of the adversarial and inquisitorial models of criminal justice administration. Ultimately, they conclude both are subject to the forces that lead to wrongful convictions." - International Criminal Justice Review
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