Reauthorization of the Innocence Protection Act
Reauthorization of the Innocence Protection Act

Author: United States. Congress

Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform

Published: 2017-12-30

Total Pages: 332

ISBN-13: 9781983420139

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Reauthorization of the Innocence Protection Act : hearing before the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, first session September 22, 2009.

Controversies in Innocence Cases in America
Controversies in Innocence Cases in America

Author: Ms Sarah Lucy Cooper

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

Published: 2014-05-28

Total Pages: 247

ISBN-13: 1409463540

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This volume brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors consider the challenges faced by the exoneration movement, causes of wrongful convictions, problems associated with investigating, proving, and defining ‘innocence’, and theories of reform. These issues are investigated from a multi-disciplinary perspective and with the aim of improving the American criminal justice system when it is faced with its most harrowing sight: an innocent defendant.

Crime and Criminal Justice in America
Crime and Criminal Justice in America

Author: Joycelyn Pollock

Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Published: 2017-02-17

Total Pages: 567

ISBN-13: 1351979876

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This text offers a concise, affordable and reader-friendly introduction to the criminal justice system. It explores the system in four sections: the criminal justice system as social control, law enforcement as social control, the law as social control, and corrections as social control.