Law and Society provides a balanced and comprehensive analysis of the interplay between
law and society using both Canadian and international examples. This clear and readable …

In this Article, the authors analyze a century of research on the causes and consequences of
wrongful convictions in the American criminal justice system while explaining the many …

More than 2,600 exonerations have been documented in the United States since 1989.
Forensic science—in the form of postconviction DNA testing—has played a critical role in the …

Purpose Although it is easy to assume that individuals who have been wrongfully convicted
are stigmatized, research has not systematically examined this issue. This research …

Qualitatively Estimating the Incidence of Wrongful Convictions Page 1 Qualitatively Estimating
the Incidence of Wrongful Convictions Marvin Zalman* Table of Contents 1. Introduction A …

How often are innocent people wrongfully convicted in America's criminal justice system?
This question has been aptly described as not only the most basic question about wrongful …

Objectives Estimate the frequency of self-reported factual innocence in non-capital cases
within a state population of prisoners. Methods We conducted a survey of a population …

The following Essay by Professor Daniel S. Medwed provides a response to skeptics and
antagonists of the emerging centrality of innocence-based arguments in criminal law …

Perhaps no problem challenges the legitimacy of the criminal justice system more than the
conviction of factually innocent individuals. Numerous highly publicized exonerations that …

Research Summary In this article, we examine criminal offending by true perpetrators after
innocent people are arrested and convicted for their crimes. After investigating a set of cases …