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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Wrongful convictions"”.
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Societal perceptions of wrongful convictions
In recent years wrongful convictions have received a considerable amount of research attention. This flourishing interest has resulted in a growing body of literature that aims to investigate this criminal justice phenomenon. Specifically, the current academic literature suggests that exonerees …
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The influence of personal factors on wrongful convictions
… factors that influence the likelihood of wrongful conviction. However, fewer efforts have been made to examine how these factors influence the amount of time between wrongful conviction and exoneration. This is crucial to the expansion of innocence research and the contextualization of …
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Wrongful Convictions as a Result of Public Defender Representation.
… however, unfortunately mistakes happen. One wrongful conviction is one too many. There are multiple factors that can be assumed to be the cause of wrongful convictions. However, due to the lack of directly related research, the determents are not well established. The following research …
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An Insight into the Wrongly Convicted: Going beyond the Perceptions and Beliefs of the Causes
<p>This study examined the number of wrongful convictions that were exonerated from January 1, 2004 to September 1, 2012. Four hundred forty seven exoneration cases were examined to obtain the factors that contributed to wrongful convictions, the most common offenses related to wrongful …
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Canadian women and no-crime wrongful convictions: an investigation into whether (and why) women are more frequently wrongfully convicted in no-crime cases against children
Research on no-crime wrongful convictions and female exonerees is scarce, but what research exists suggests that women are wrongfully convicted in no-crime cases against children more often than in wrong-person crime cases. The goal of this dissertation was to begin exploring (1) whether this …
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A content and thematic analysis of Reddit discussions about When They See Us
As the number of wrongful conviction media productions increases, an understanding of their impact on viewers is prudent. In this thesis, I investigated the effect of watching When They See Us – a dramatized miniseries depicting the wrongful conviction of five racialized teenagers in 1990 – on the …
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Sensitizing the general public: experiential processing alters perceptions of confession evidence and minimization
False confessions are a leading cause of wrongful convictions in Canada, suggesting a lack of protection against false confessions. Moreover, minimization tactics can increase the chance of false confessions. Current educational efforts (i.e., cautionary instructions and expert testimony) do not …
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Multiple independent lineups: A procedure for corroborating eyewitness identification evidence in children
… eyewitness testimony is a leading cause of wrongful convictions (National Registry of Exonerations, 2019). This study examined a novel eyewitness technique to use with children, the multiple independent lineup (MIL) technique, to assess facial identification accuracy. A total of 486 children …
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Exploring Medical Expert Testimony and its Contribution to Miscarriages of Justice An Examination of the Flawed Pathological Evidence of Dr Charles Smith
Wrongful convictions have garnered recent increased attention in Canada, but specific concern with the use of medical expert evidence in criminal trials is especially timely. With the recent Inquiry into Pediatric Forensic Pathology in Ontario, it has become clear that flawed medical expert …
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Wrongful Conviction Documentaries: Influences of Crime Media Exposure on Mock Juror Decision-Making
… in efforts to educate the general public about wrongful convictions (Kassin, 2017; Wells et al., 2000). Recently, programs depicting wrongful convictions, such as <em>Making a Murderer </em>(Demos & Ricciardi, 2015) and <em>When They See Us </em>(DuVernay, 2019) have garnered substantial …
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The Effects Of Racial Stereotypes On False Recall
… In fact, false memories have been linked to many wrongful convictions in the U.S. legal system. It is well known that memories are malleable and are often reconstructed. As a result, it has been theorized that suggestive law enforcement interrogations can cause people to misremember events or even …
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The Contribution of Ethical Reasoning Skills in Forensic Science
… with upholding justice through science. Numerous wrongful convictions and ethical issues involving forensic science indicate a need to dissect the field from a different perspective. Stories in the media regularly identify ethical issues in forensic science ranging from individual misconduct to …
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Meta-analytic review of the contact, outgroup ethnic-nationality effect (OENE) and prejudice relationships
… while often earnest, translate into wrongful convictions with a high fiscal and social cost. Consequently, while the theoretical underpinnings thereof and means with which to attenuate such an identification deficit have been extensively studied, a paradoxical finding has emerged with …
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An industrial revolution for fingerprint science? The impact of cognition and human factors on fingerprint examiners: implications for the use of fingerprint examiner expertise and administration within law enforcement.
… for improvement in order to minimise the risk of wrongful convictions (Adler 2004). This thesis suggests that fingerprint examiners are not only emotionally driven and motivated to achieve results, but also that the motivations of examiners (Kruglanski et al 1983, Kruglanski et al 1987, Kruglanski …
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Persuasion Factors that Influence the Effectiveness of Cross-Examination of a Forensic Expert
… forensic testimony is a large contributor to wrongful convictions. Many forensic science disciplines are subjective and have concerning error rates, and forensic experts often testify with unfounded certainty regarding their analyses. These issues, coupled with jurors' misbeliefs about …