80 proposals to stop wrongful convictions before the end of this decade
By: Morrison Bonpasse
Published: 2015
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780990652625
Subjects: Administration of Criminal justice; Judicial error
Other titles: Eighty proposals to stop wrongful convictions before the end of this decade
Description: This book is about the need to drastically reduce to .1% or less the frequency of wrongful conviction and to exonerate the thousands of wrongly convicted inmates now in prison. The United States has a large wrongful conviction problem, and it's a travesty. This book presents 80 Proposals to STOP the problem. The forensic DNA revolution, which produced its first wrongful conviction exoneration in 1989, has led to some changes in the U.S. criminal justice system but not nearly enough. In the history of criminal justice systems, the people wrongly convicted over the centuries always knew what had happened to them, but few others knew or cared. Now we all know. The book provides 80 practical proposals for national reform of the criminal justice system in order to reduce the frequency of wrongful conviction to .1 percent or less.
Table of contents: title: The wrongful size of the United States wrongful conviction problem; title: 80 Proposals for stopping wrongful convictions; title: The national problem of wrongful convictions requires national solutions; title: Reduce crime and prison populations; title: Investigation process; title: Grand jury/preliminary hearing for indictment; title: Pleas and plea bargaining; title: Trials; title: Post trial; title: Executive powers for justice: prisons, pardons and clemency; title: Post exoneration; title: Substance and procedure in adversarial system; title: Conclusion.