Full Description
A cross-national study that shows how various criminal justice systems are susceptible to wrongful convictions
Contents
Part I: Cross-National Perspectives and Issues
1. Introduction
2. Wrongful Conviction and Moral Panic: National and International Prespectives on Organized Child Sexual Abuse
3. Judicial Error and Forensic Science: Pondering the Contribution of DNA Evidence
Part II: North American Perspectives and Issues
4. Wrongful Convictions in the United States
5. The Adversary System and Wrongful Conviction
6. Fatal Errors: Compelling Claims of Executions of the Innocent in the Post-Furman Era
7. The Fallibility of Justice in Canada: A Critical Examination of Conviction Review
Part III: European and Israeli Perspectives and Issues
8. Wrongful Convictions in Switzerland: The Experience of a Continental Law Country
9. The Vulnerability of Dutch Criminal Procedure to Wrongful Conviction
10. Criminal Justice and Miscarriages of Justice in England and Wales
11. A Comparative Analysis of Prosecution in Germany and the United Kingdom: Searching for Truth or Getting a Conviction?
12. Wrongful Conviction in France: The Limits of "Pourvoi en Revision"
13. The Sanctity of Criminal Law: Thoughts and Reflections on Wrongful Conviction in Israel
14. Wrongful Convictions in Poland: From the Communist Ero to the Rechtstaat Experience
Part IV: Conclusions
15. Wrongful Convictions: Conclusions from an International Overview
Contributors
Index
