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When Law Fails : Making Sense of Miscarriages of Justice.
Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A clos...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
NYU Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Charles Hamilton Houston Institute Series on Race & Justice.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part I: On the Meaning and Significance of Miscarriages of Justice; 1 The Case of "Death for a Dollar Ninety-Five": Miscarriages of Justice and Constructions of American Identity; 2 When Law Fails: History, Genius, and Unhealed Wounds after Tulsa's Race Riot; 3 Margins of Error; Part II: Miscarriages of Justice and Legal Processes; 4 Recovering the Craft of Policing: Wrongful Convictions, the War on Crime, and the Problem of Security; 5 Kalven and Zeisel in the Twenty-First Century: Is the Jury Still the Defendant's Friend?; 6 Extreme Punishment.
- 7 Miscarriages of Mercy?8 Memorializing Miscarriages of Justice: Clemency Petitions in the Killing State; Part III: Reconceptualizing Miscarriages of Justice; 9 Miscarriage of Justice as Misnomer; 10 The Scale of Injustice; Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.