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This edited international collection explores the nature and extent of wrongful convictions, as well as examining the systems in place that attempt to exonerate the wrongly convicted.
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ForewordMorris J. FishIntroductionBarak Ariel Part 1: Judicial Perspectives on Wrongful Convictions Chapter 1. The Pathology of Wrongful Convictions: Perspectives from the Bench
Ian BinnieChapter 2. Israeli Criminal Law and Confessions: The "Queen of Evidence" Meets the Talmud
Neal Hendel Part 2: Factors Contributing to Wrongful Convictions, Detection and CorrectionChapter 3. Police Investigation and False Convictions
Boaz Sangero Chapter 4. Police Deception: How Lies and Undercover Operations Contribute to False Confessions
Rinat Kitai-Sangero Chapter 5. Jailhouse Informants in Canadian Courtrooms: Problems and Solutions
Erica M. Giulione and Kathryn M. Campbell Chapter 6. Eyewitness Identification - Recommendations by the Public Committee for the Prevention of False Convictions and Their Correction
Danziger Committee Chapter 7. Does the Bystander Look Criminal or Just Familiar? A Laboratory Experiment on Eyewitness Misidentification
Lea Jaeger and Israel Nachson Chapter 8. You Say You Want a Revolution? Understanding Guilty Plea Wrongful Convictions
Kent Roach Chapter 9. Forensic Pathology in Canada
John C. Butt Chapter 10. Three Wrongs Don't Make a Right: On the Near Impossibility of Post-Conviction Forensic Testing in Israel
Rottem Rosenberg-Rubins Part 3: Post-Conviction Models of ExonerationChapter 11. Institutional Models for Exoneration - The Criminal Cases Review Commission
Hannah Quirk Chapter 12. The North Carolina Innocence Inquiry Commission: An Innovative Approach to Post-Conviction Claims of Factual Innocence
Lindsey Guise Smith Chapter 13. The Reopening of Criminal Cases in Norway
Siv Hallgren Chapter 14. The New Zealand Experience: Te K¿hui T¿tari Ture - The Criminal Cases Review Commission
Colin Carruthers and Parekawhia McLean Chapter 15. Miscarriages of Justice in Australia: Unfinished Business
Michael KirbyChapter 16. UK Criminal Cases Review Commissions and the Slow Road to Policy Transfer in Canada
Clive P. Walker and Kathryn M. Campbell Chapter 17. Retrial in Israel: The Need for a Restart
Mordechai Kremnitzer and Gal Harnik Blum Part 4: Case StudiesChapter 18. The Interrogation
Hanan Peled and Avigdor Feldman Chapter 19. The Wilbert Coffin Story: A Miscarriage of Justice?
Michael Rooney, Hanna Irwin, and Kathryn M. Campbell Legislation
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Secondary Materials: Articles
Secondary Materials: Monographs
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Kathryn M. Campbell is Professor of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. She holds a B.A. in Psychology (McGill), an M.Phil in Criminology (Cantab), a Ph.D. in Criminology (Universite de Montreal) and a BCL/LLB (McGill). Professor Campbell has long been interested in studying social justice, including issues of equality and rights under the law, for various individuals and groups. Professor Campbell has published extensively in the areas of miscarriages of justice, young persons and criminal law, and Indigenous justice issues.
Barak Ariel is a Professor at the Institute of Criminology, Faculty of Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Professor of Experimental Criminology at the University of Cambridge. He is the current Director of the Police Executive Cambridge at the University of Cambridge. His research interests lie in the areas of policing, victimology and law and society.
Anat Horovitz is a faculty member of the Hebrew University Faculty of Law, where she teaches Criminal Procedure and serves as the Academic Director of the Innocence Clinic. Anat stepped down from her ten-year position as Deputy Head of Israel's Public Defender's Office in 2022, was a member of the Public Committee on Wrongful Convictions and Miscarriages of Justice (2018-2022) and served on the Advisory Committee to the Minister of Justice on Criminal Procedure (2005-2012, 2018-2022). Anat holds an L.L.B. (Hebrew University), L.L.M. (London School of Economics) and L.L.D. (Hebrew University), interned at the Israel Supreme Court and worked for a decade as an associate and partner at a law firm, specializing in white-collar crime.
Irwin Cotler, PC, OC, OQ, is International Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, Emeritus Professor of Law at McGill University, former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada and long-time Member of Parliament, and an international human rights lawyer. A constitutional and comparative law scholar, Professor Cotler is the author of numerous publications and seminal legal articles and has written upon and intervened in landmark Charter of Rights cases in the areas of free speech, freedom of religion, minority rights, peace law and war crimes justice.
