Reading Innocence: A Wrongful Convictions Reader (original) (raw)

Carolina Academic Press Forthcoming 2018

Abstract

Beginning in the 1990s, awareness of wrongful convictions in the legal community and the popular culture has grown dramatically, in large part thanks to the revolutionary use of post-conviction DNA testing to prove the innocence of scores of individuals and, ultimately, win hundreds of exonerations. During that same time period, and thanks in part to the data made available in a growing database of known wrongful conviction cases, there has been a virtual explosion in research and scholarship on the causes and consequences of wrongful convictions. The purpose of this book is to provide instructors in law schools, graduate and undergraduate programs, with a course reader that can serve as a stand-alone text, or supplemental readings, for teaching about wrongful convictions. The Reader is designed to meet the needs both of instructors who are primarily interested in the policy and science of wrongful convictions and who might be addressing a general student audience, as well as instructors in law school clinical courses, practicums, or other focused, preparatory programs of practical training who wish to emphasize experiential teaching objectives. The Reader does this by gathering together the leading scholarship and, in some cases, investigative reporting, on the causes and consequences of wrongful convictions to provide students of wrongful convictions a sophisticated, comprehensive, state-of-the-art, and highly engaging exposure to the field. In addition, each chapter is accompanied with in-class exercises, simulations, and selected stories, or multi-media resources chosen or designed by the editors to facilitate an experiential-based curriculum for those who desire it. Co-author: Russell Covey

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