Abstract
Legal literature from the beginning of the century, as well as more recent studies, furnish us with accounts of cases of innicent men and women who were tried and convicted of serious crimes throughout the United States. This study surveys the literature on those cases and describes these wrongful convictions by the distribution of offenses, of sentences, of actual punishment inflicted, and types of error contributing to the wrongful conviction.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 283-293 |
| Number of pages | 11 |
| Journal | Law and Human Behavior |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue number | 3 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - Sep 1988 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
- General Psychology
- Psychiatry and Mental health
- Law