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| Contents |
Introduction / C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias -- Wrongful conviction and moral panic: national and international perspectives on organized child sexual abuse / Randall Grometstein -- Judicial error and forensic science: pondering the contribution of DNA evidence / Beatrice Schiffer and Christophe Champod -- Wrongful convictions in the United States / C. Ronald Huff -- The adversary system and wrongful conviction / Marvin Zalman -- Fatal errors: compelling claims of executions of the innocent in the post-Furman era / William S. Lofquist and Talia R. Harmon -- The fallibility of justice in Canada: a critical examination of conviction review / Kathryn M. Campbell -- Wrongful convictions in Switzerland: the experience of a continental law country / Martin Killias -- The vulnerability of Dutch criminal procedure to wrongful conviction / Chrisje Brants -- Criminal justice and miscarriages of justice in England and Wales / Clive Walker and Carole McCartney -- A comparative analysis of prosecution in Germany and the United Kingdom: searching for truth or getting a conviction? / Isabel Kessler -- Wrongful convictions in France: the limits of "pourvoi en révision" / Nathalie Dongois -- The sanctity of criminal law: thoughts and reflections on wrongful conviction in Israel / Arye Rattner -- Wrongful convictions in Poland: from the communist era to the Rechtstaat experience / Emil W. Plywaczewski, Adam Górski, and Andrzej Sakowicz -- Wrongful conviction: conclusions from an international overview / C. Ronald Huff and Martin Killias. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| LCCN | 2008002888 |
| ISBN | 9781592136452 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| ISBN | 1592136451 (cloth : alk. paper) |
