The influence of personal factors on wrongful convictions

Previous work has identified 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 wrongful convictions within the criminal justice system. This study employs negative binomial regression to analyze data collected by the National Registry of Exonerations (NRE). Using a sample of 2,349 cases in which the most severe conviction was murder, sexual assault, child sexual abuse, or drug possession, I examine the influence of an exoneree’s age, race, and biological sex on time to exoneration while controlling for worst crime, number of crimes, and the number of causes for wrongful conviction. Findings demonstrate the effects of age, biological sex, race, number of causes, and severity of conviction on the amount of time lost due to wrongful convictions.

Grantor dc:publisher

University of Tennessee at Chattanooga

Author dc:creator

• Jackson, Ellee

Contributors dc:contributor

• Basham, Sherah
• Dierenfeldt, Rick; Denny, Andrew S.; Acuff, Christopher
• College of Arts and Sciences

• False imprisonment
• Judicial error
• Vindication

Licence

• http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/

Language dc:language

English, eng

Repository record dc:identifier

https://scholar.utc.edu/theses/858

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:scholar.utc.edu:theses-2036