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Not Guilty : Are the Acquitted Innocent? / Amy Farrell, Daniel Givelber.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York, NY : New York University Press, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780814732175
  • 9780814725344
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 345.730122 23
LOC classification:
  • KF9756 .G59 2016
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Judge and Jury Decisions to Acquit -- 3. Screening for Innocence -- 4. Understanding Why Judges and Juries Disagree about Criminal Case Outcomes -- 5. The Defense Case -- 6. The Impact of Race on Judge and Jury Decision Making -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors
Summary: 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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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9780814725344

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Tables -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Judge and Jury Decisions to Acquit -- 3. Screening for Innocence -- 4. Understanding Why Judges and Juries Disagree about Criminal Case Outcomes -- 5. The Defense Case -- 6. The Impact of Race on Judge and Jury Decision Making -- 7. Conclusion -- Appendix A -- Appendix B -- Appendix C -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Authors

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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