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This book defines the differing concepts of miscarriages of justice, wrongful convictions and innocence in relation to the presumption of innocence and the rationing of justice. It compares inquisitorial systems, with examples from Europe, South America and Asia to adversarial systems. It contrasts England's focus on the miscarriage of justice…
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Kent Roach, co-founder of the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions, has spent his career as a lawyer and law professor fighting against wrongful convictions in Canada.
Most known for his best-seller Wrongfully Convicted, Kent recently published Justice for Some, an open-access book comparing wrongful convictions and miscarriages of justice internationally, from the U.S. and Canada to China and India. This robust guide (over 650 pages) is one of the first books to explicitly examine the role of gender and stereotypes in wrongful convictions internationally, and to bring attention to the wrongful convictions of Indigenous women.
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