Convicted but innocent: Wrongful conviction and the criminal justice system.
- 1 January 1988
- journal article
- Published by American Psychological Association (APA) in Law and Human Behavior
- Vol. 12 (3) , 283-293
- https://doi.org/10.1007/bf01044385
Abstract
Legal literature from the beginning of the century, as well as more recent studies, furnish us with accounts of cases of innicent men and women who were tried and convicted of serious crimes throughout the United States. This study surveys the literature on those cases and describes these wrongful convictions by the distribution of offenses, of sentences, of actual punishment inflicted, and types of error contributing to the wrongful conviction.Keywords
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