Book description
2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner, Silver (Political and Social Sciences)
Winner of the Montaigne Medal, awarded to "the most thought-provoking books"
The first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction-one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened.
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Why read it?
1 author picked Smoke but No Fire as one of their favorite books. Why do they recommend it?
Every year, the Innocence Network hosts a national conference, gathering nearly 1000 people to learn about and fight against wrongful convictions.
I met Jessica Henry at the conference when she was writing Smoke But No Fire, and it is the first book to give a name to no-crime wrongful convictions. While women are only a part of the book, Jessica informs readers of the phenomenon where people are arrested, convicted, and punished, even though literally no crime occurred. Jessica shares how suicides are mislabeled and punished as homicides, and corrupt police plant drugs on innocent suspects.
The book lays…
From Valena's list on wrongful convictions of women and queer people.
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