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Wrongful Conviction
- 1st Edition - January 1, 2016
- Author: Christine Funk
- Language: English
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 1 - 4 5 5 7 - 7 6 5 5 - 9
Wrongful Conviction provides the reader with an understanding of the sources of wrongful conviction. Each chapter presents a topic and then provides a case study on how that to… Read more
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Request a sales quoteWrongful Conviction provides the reader with an understanding of the sources of wrongful conviction. Each chapter presents a topic and then provides a case study on how that topic led to a wrongful conviction and the current state of the law for that topic. Special attention is paid to forensic evidence and studies done by forensic and social scientists that illustrate the complexities leading to wrongful conviction and issues of exoneration. Wrongful Conviction shows the way science and the law both work together and at times conflict with each other in our current criminal justice system.
- Clear, accessible guide to the sources of wrongful conviction
- Case studies in each chapter illustrate the chapter topic
- Examines the current state of the law for each type of wrongful conviction.
Undergraduate and some overlap into graduate courses in criminal justice and legal studies programs; courses on Wrongful Conviction, the Death Penalty, Psychology, and Law.
Chapter 1: Intro to Wrongful Convictions
Chapter 2: False Confessions
Chapter 3: Eyewitness Identification
Chapter 4: Counsel for the Poor
Chapter 5: Prosecutorial Misconduct and Wrongful Convictions
Chapter 6: Ineffective Assistance of Counsel
Chapter 7: Informants and Cooperators
Chapter 8: Alibis
Chapter 9: Forensic Science and Wrongful Convictions: The NAS Report
Chapter 10: Forensic Science and Wrongful Convictions: When the Science Is Wrong, Misstated, and the Culture of the Crime Lab
Chapter 11: Habeas Corpus and Post-Conviction Remedies: Actual Innocence and Continued Incarceration
Chapter 12: Media and Wrongful Convictions
Chapter 13: Innocence and Race
Chapter 14: Innocence and the Death Penalty
Chapter 15: Starting Over
- No. of pages: 300
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: January 1, 2016
- Imprint: Anderson
- eBook ISBN: 9781455776559
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Christine Funk
Christine Funk is Assistant State Public Defender for the State of Minnesota and has a private consulting practice, working with lawyers in the Federal Public Defender’s Office, State Public Defender’s Office, and the private bar on DNA cases. She teaches Wrongful Convictions, among other courses, at William Mitchell College of Law in St. Paul, Minnesota, and has also taught Wrongful Convictions at Hamline University. Funk has reviewed grants for the National Institute of Justice and Bureau of Justice Assistance. She is on the Minnesota Forensic Laboratory Advisory Board and is a former member of the Technical Working Group on DNA Defense Attorneys at the National Institute of Justice. Funk is a member and past program chair of the Jurisprudence Section at the American Academy of Forensic Sciences and is a member of the American Board of Criminalistics. Funk is a frequent lecturer on various topics involving the intersection of forensic science and criminal cases and is on the Board of the Innocence Project of Minnesota.