Description
In Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault, Matthew Barry Johnson introduces new directions in wrongful conviction research and understanding. Citing Innocence Project and National Registry of Exoneration data, the book identifies sexual assault as the predominant offense type associated with confirmed wrongful convictions in the US. Johnson outlines the differential risk of wrongful conviction associated with stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and intra-familial child sexual abuse. He also introduces new terms and concepts such as "black box" investigation, illustrating the lack of transparency in the production of prosecution evidence; a four-part stranger rape thesis; and the "moral outrage - moral correction" process that results in cognitive and emotional factors that interfere with the evaluation of criminal evidence. The book also includes chapters on racial bias in rape prosecution, and the relationship of serial sex offending to wrongful conviction. Citing both foundational and newly-introduced conviction research, Johnson illustrates unexamined aspects of well-known wrongful conviction cases (i.e. The Central Park Five, Steve Avery, Ronald Cotton, The Norfolk Four) and presents the lessons from lesser known wrongful convictions. Wrongful Conviction in Sexual Assault provides valuable new perspectives and insight for psychologists, defense lawyers, prosecutors, crime investigators, and social justice scholars.
Table of Contents
Introduction and OverviewChapter One: The Modern Politics of Sexual Assault ProsecutionChapter Two: Rape and Wrongful ConvictionChapter Three: Race and Rape Prosecution in U.S. HistoryChapter Four: Serial Rapists and Wrongful ConvictionChapter Five: Child Sexual Abuse HysteriaChapter Six: Processes, Models, and Concepts in Wrongful ConvictionChapter Seven: Prospective and Future DirectionsAppendix AAppendix BAppendix CAppendix D
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