| Not Guilty: Are the Acquitted Innocent? Contributor(s): Givelber, Daniel (Author), Farrell, Amy (Author) |
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ISBN: 0814732178 ISBN-13: 9780814732175 Publisher: New York University Press OUR PRICE: $38.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Criminal Procedure - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 345.730 |
| LCCN: 2011052263 |
| Physical Information: 0.93" H x 6.42" W x 9.07" (1.05 lbs) 224 pages |
| Themes: - Sex & Gender - Feminine |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: As scores of death row inmates are exonerated by DNA evidence and innocence commissions are set up across the country, conviction of the innocent has become a well-recognized problem. But our justice system makes both kinds of errors--we acquit the guilty and convict the innocent--and exploring the reasons why people are acquitted can help us to evaluate the efficiency and fairness of our criminal justice system. Not Guilty provides a sustained examination and analysis of the factors that lead juries to find defendants "not guilty," as well as the connection between those factors and the possibility of factual innocence, examining why some criminal trials result in not guilty verdicts and what those verdicts suggest about the accuracy of our criminal process. |
Contributor Bio(s): Givelber, Daniel: - 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Daniel Givelber is Professor of Law and former Dean at Northeastern Law School of Law. A founding member of the New England Innocence Project, he has also been involved in death penalty litigation both through directing Northeastern's Certiorari Clinic and by the successful decade long representation of a death row inmate.Farrell, Amy: - 800x600 Normal 0 false false false EN-US X-NONE X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 /* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name: "Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow: yes; mso-style-priority:99; mso-style-parent: ""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom: .0001pt; mso-pagination: widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family: "Times New Roman","serif";} Amy Farrell is Associate Professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northeastern University. |
