Nicky Ali Jackson, Kathryn M Campbell, Margaret Pate

The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction

Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims

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Produktbeschreibung

This book exposes the myriad of victims of wrongful conviction by going beyond the innocent person who has been wrongfully incarcerated to include the numerous indirect victims who suffer collaterally.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd (Sales)
• Seitenzahl: 162
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Juli 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 254mm x 178mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 549g
• ISBN-13: 9780367639044
• ISBN-10: 0367639041
• Artikelnr.: 63223978

Autorenporträt

Nicky Ali Jackson is a Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). Dr. Jackson is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance at PNW. She also serves as President of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition. Dr. Jackson is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest civilian honor, bestowed by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb for her humanity and service to the citizens of Indiana. Kathryn M. Campbell is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada and has published extensively in the area of miscarriages of justice. Dr. Campbell is the faculty director of Innocence Ottawa, a pro-bono, student run innocence project aimed at helping the wrongly convicted who are seeking exoneration apply for conviction review to the Minister of Justice. Margaret Pate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Radford University. Dr. Pate is also the Associate Director in the Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship at Radford.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword by Lenore Walker
Preface by Jeffrey Mark Deskovic
Section I. Victimology: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims
1. Introduction: Definitions, Methodology, and Demographics
2. Victimology: Theoretical Perspectives and their Applications to the
Wrongly Convicted
3. The Nature and Extent of Wrongful Convictions
4. Victimizing the Innocent: Racism, Wrongful Convictions, and Exonerations
of Black Men in the Criminal Legal System
Section II. The Many Victims of a Wrongful Conviction
5. The Exoneree as Victim
6. Female Victims of a Wrongful Conviction: Continual Marginalization
7. Family as Victims of a Wrongful Conviction
8. Revictimization of the Original Victim
9. Society as a Victim of a Wrongful Conviction
10. Post-release Victimization: "Freedom is Never Free"
11. Final Thoughts and Future Considerations

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Foreword by Lenore Walker
Preface by Jeffrey Mark Deskovic

Section I. Victimology: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims

1. Introduction: Definitions, Methodology, and Demographics

2. Victimology: Theoretical Perspectives and their Applications to the Wrongly Convicted

3. The Nature and Extent of Wrongful Convictions

4. Victimizing the Innocent: Racism, Wrongful Convictions, and Exonerations of Black Men in the Criminal Legal System

Section II. The Many Victims of a Wrongful Conviction

5. The Exoneree as Victim

6. Female Victims of a Wrongful Conviction: Continual Marginalization

7. Family as Victims of a Wrongful Conviction

8. Revictimization of the Original Victim

9. Society as a Victim of a Wrongful Conviction

10. Post-release Victimization: "Freedom is Never Free"

11. Final Thoughts and Future Considerations

Rezensionen

In The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims, Drs. Nicky Jackson, Kathryn M. Campbell, and Margaret Pate powerfully position the experiences of people who are wrongly convicted as "victims" of a criminal legal system in desperate need of reform. The authors take their analysis one step further, and extend the victimology framework to the other victims of wrongful convictions - the families of the wrongly convicted, the original survivors of actual crimes, and society at large. Grounded in qualitative research and in victim theories, this book is a welcome and compelling addition to the wrongful conviction literature.

Jessica S. Henry, author of Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened

The subject matter of The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims is an important contribution to the study of wrongful convictions. Professors Jackson, Campbell, and Pate have undertaken a tremendous task - to situate the experiences of the wrongly convicted as victims, and their families as secondary victims of a state crime - and they have succeeded. They have also forced readers to confront the realities that exonerees and their families experience - enduring great emotional, psychological, and financial hardships, similar to other crime victims. This comprehensive, academic analysis of the victimology of a wrongful conviction, is a must-read for innocence scholars and victimologists.

Mark Godsey, author of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions