Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice

C. Ronald Huff, Martin Killias

"This innovative work builds on Huff and Killias' earlier publication (2008), but is broader and more thoroughly comparative in a number of important ways: (1) while focusing heavily on wrongful convictions, it places the subject of wrongful convictions in the broader contextual framework of miscarriages of justice and provides discussions of different types of miscarriages of justice that have not previously received much scholarly attention by criminologists ; (2) it addresses, in much greater detail, the questions of how, and how often, wrongful convictions occur ; (3) it provides more in-depth consideration of the role of forensic science in helping produce wrongful convictions and in helping free those who have been wrongfully convicted ; (4) it offers new insights into the origins and current progress of the innocence movement, as well as the challenges that await the exonerated...