Wrongful Conviction

International Perspectives on Miscarriages of Justice

Edited by C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias
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PB: $34.95
EAN: 978-1-59213-646-9
Publication: Dec 09

HC: $66.50
EAN: 978-1-59213-645-2
Publication: Jul 08

Ebook: $34.95
EAN: 978-1-59213-647-6
Publication: Jul 08

326 pages


A cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictions

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About the Author(s)

C. Ronald Huff is Dean of the School of Social Ecology and Professor of Criminology, Law and Society as well as Sociology at the University of California, Irvine. He is the author of numerous scholarly articles and 12 books, including Convicted but Innocent: Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy.

Martin Killias is Professor of Criminal Law and Criminology at the Universities of Zurich and Lausanne, and a part-time Judge in the Federal Supreme Court of Switzerland. He received the Sellin-Glueck Award of the American Society of Criminology in 2001.


Subjects

Law and Criminology Political Science and Public Policy Sociology