Wrongful conviction
Subtitle: international perspectives on miscarriages of justice
By: edited by C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias.
Contributors: Huff, C. Ronald.; Killias, Martin.
Publisher: Temple University Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 319
ISBN-13: 9781592136452
Subjects: Judicial error
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction / C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias; title: Wrongful conviction and moral panic: national and international perspectives on organized child sexual abuse / Randall Grometstein; title: Judicial error and forensic science: pondering the contribution of dna evidence / Beatrice Schiffer and Christophe Champod; title: Wrongful convictions in the United States / C. Ronald Huff; title: The "adversary system" and wrongful conviction / Marvin Zalman; title: Fatal errors: compelling claims of executions of the innocent in the post-Furman era / William S. Lofquist and Talia R. Harmon; title: The fallibility of justice in Canada: a critical examination; title: Of conviction review / Kathryn M. Campbell; title: Wrongful convictions in Switzerland: the experience of a continental law country / Martin Killias; title: The vulnerability of Dutch criminal procedure to wrongful conviction / Chrisje Brants; title: Criminal justice and miscarriages of justice in England and Wales / Clive Walker and Carole McCartney; title: A comparative analysis of prosecution in Germany and the United Kingdom: searching for truth or getting a conviction? / Isabel Kessler; title: Wrongful convictions in France: the limits of "pourvoi en revision" / Nathalie Dongois; title: Chapter 13: the sanctity of criminal law: thoughts and reflections on wrongful conviction in israel / Arye Rattner; title: Wrongful convictions in Poland: from the communist era to the Rechtstaat experience / Emil Plywaczewski, Adam Gorski, and Andrzej Sakowicz; title: Wrongful conviction: conclusions from an international overview / Ronald Huff and Martin Killias.