Kathryn Campbell

Miscarriages of Justice in Canada

Causes, Responses, Remedies

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In Miscarriages of Justice in Canada, Kathryn M. Campbell offers an extensive overview of wrongful convictions, bringing together current sociological, criminological, and legal research, as well as current case-law examples.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 544
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Juli 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 20mm
• Gewicht: 726g
• ISBN-13: 9780802094063
• ISBN-10: 0802094066
• Artikelnr.: 43855766

Autorenporträt

Kathryn M. Campbell is an associate professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa. She is also the faculty director of Innocence Ottawa, a pro-bono, student run innocence project that assists individuals who have been wrongly convicted.

Inhaltsangabe

Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2: Eyewitness Identification and Misidentification
Chapter 3: The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful
Convictions: Police
Chapter 4: The Role of Legal Professionals in Contributing to Wrongful
Convictions: Prosecutors, Defense Counsel, and the Judiciary
Chapter 5 - False Confessions
Chapter 6 - In-custody Informants
Chapter 7 - DNA Evidence: Raising the Bar
Chapter 8 -Forensic Evidence and Expert Testimony
Chapter 9 - Conventional Remedies through the Courts and Conviction Review
Chapter 10 - Commissions of Inquiry: Lessons Learned
Chapter 11 - Compensation: The "Obstacle Course"
Chapter 12 - The Impact of Public Lobbying on Wrongful Convictions: The
Role of the Media, Lobby Groups and Innocence Projects
Chapter 13: Lessons from Other Jurisdictions
Chapter 14 - Final Conclusions