Document Type
Book Chapter
Publication Date
2012
Abstract
False convictions have received a lot of attention in recent years. Two-hundred and forty-one prisoners have been released after DNA testing has proved their innocence, and hundreds of others have been released without DNA evidence. We now know quite a bit more about false convictions than we did thirty years ago - but there is much more that we do not know, and may never know.
Publication Information & Recommended Citation
Gross, Samuel R. "False Convictions." P. C. Ellsworth, co-author. In The Behavioral Foundations of Public Policy, edited by E. Shafir, 163-80. Princeton Univ. Press, 2012.
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