Not Guilty: Are the Acquitted Innocent?

Not Guilty: Are the Acquitted Innocent?
ISBN-10
0814744400
ISBN-13
9780814744406
Category
Social Science
Pages
224
Language
English
Published
2012-06-11
Publisher
NYU Press
Authors
Amy Farrell, Daniel Givelber

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.

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