Narratives of Guilt and Innocence The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases

Free Download Ralph Grunewald, "Narratives of Guilt and Innocence: The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases"
English | ISBN: 1479818194 | 2023 | 288 pages | PDF | 1363 KB
Illustrates how the power of narrative influences how police, prosecutors, juries, and judges construct

legal reality
Wrongful convictions have been studied primarily through the lenses of law, psychology, and the social sciences. Though scholarship has established canonical factors that help explain why the innocent are convicted, a very simple question has not been answered: How is it possible that prosecutors can convince juries and themselves of the guilt of an innocent defendant, often even against strong exculpatory evidence?
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