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This volume brings together leading experts on the investigation, litigation and scholarly analysis of innocence cases in America, from legal, political and ethical perspectives. The contributors consider the challenges faced by the exoneration movement, causes of wrongful convictions, problems associated with investigating, proving, and defining 'innocence', and theories of reform. These issues are investigated from a multi-disciplinary perspective and with the aim of improving the American criminal justice system when it is faced with its most harrowing sight: an innocent defendant.

Judicial error --- False imprisonment --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Abuse of process --- Imprisonment, False --- Wrongful imprisonment --- Wrongful incarceration --- Imprisonment --- Malicious prosecution --- Offenses against the person --- Torts

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Marvin Free and Mitch Ruesink reveal the distinctive role that gender dynamics so often play in the miscarriage of justice. Examining more than 160 cases involving such charges as homicide, child abuse, and drug trafficking, the authors explore systemic failures in both policing and prosecution. They also highlight the intersecting roles of gender and race. Demonstrating how women encounter circumstances that are qualitatively different than those of men, they illuminate unique challenges facing women in the criminal justice system.

Judicial error --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- False imprisonment --- Women prisoners --- Prosecutorial misconduct --- Misconduct, Prosecutorial --- Legal ethics --- Prisoners --- Abuse of process --- Imprisonment, False --- Wrongful imprisonment --- Wrongful incarceration --- Imprisonment --- Malicious prosecution --- Offenses against the person --- Torts --- Conviction of the innocent --- Convictions, Erroneous --- Convictions, Mistaken --- Convictions, Wrongful --- Criminal justice, Errors of --- Erroneous convictions --- Errors of criminal justice --- Innocent, Conviction of the --- Justice, Miscarriage of --- Miscarriage of justice --- Mistaken convictions --- Wrongful convictions --- Justice, Administration of --- Trials

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The volume focuses on litigation damages, economic and non-economic, including punitive damages; their definitions, calculations, and assignments in the US and EU. The objective is to examine areas of convergence and divergence in the academic and practical treatment of damages issues in the US and EU. Many of the chapters in the volume are drawn from the papers and discussions generated at the Trans-Atlantic Dialogue meetings of the National Association of Forensic Economics that began in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2004. That meeting focused on the development of the 'Ogden' multipliers for calculating damages mandated for consideration by UK Courts in 1999. The 2005 meetings (Dublin, Ireland) centred on Markov methodologies used in the US for generating work-life tables and their adoption into damages multipliers, punitive damages, and the process of Irish tort reform. In 2006 discussions in Florence, Italy, focused on methods for calculating non-economic damages in the US and EU as well as the process of harmonization of tort law within the EU. Most recently, the 2007 discussions in Barcelona, Spain, dealt with comparisons of scheduled damages systems in the US and the EU.

Damages. --- Personal injuries. --- Wrongful death. --- Death by wrongful act --- Injuries (Law) --- Liability for personal injuries --- Personal injuries --- Damages --- Measure of damages --- Law and legislation --- Homicide --- Torts --- Accident law --- Employers' liability --- Compensation (Law) --- Obligations (Law) --- Set-off and counterclaim --- Negligence --- Law --- Personal injury. --- Torts. --- Civil wrongs --- Delicts --- Quasi delicts --- Wrongful acts --- Actions and defenses --- Liability (Law) --- Reasonable care (Law)

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Destruction and human remains investigates a crucial question frequently neglected in academic debate in the fields of mass violence and genocide studies: what is done to the bodies of the victims after they are killed? In the context of mass violence, death does not constitute the end of the executors' work. Their victims' remains are often treated and manipulated in very specific ways, amounting in some cases to true social engineering, often with remarkable ingenuity. To address these seldom-documented phenomena, this volume includes chapters based on extensive primary and archival research

Mass burials --- Genocide --- Mass murder --- Social Welfare & Social Work --- Social Sciences --- War Crimes --- Killing --- Wrongful Death --- Death, Wrongful --- Deaths, Wrongful --- Homicides --- Killings --- Murders --- Wrongful Deaths --- Crime, War --- Crimes, War --- War Crime --- Aspects, Historical --- Historical Aspects --- Aspect, Historical --- Historical Aspect --- Problem, Social --- Problems, Social --- Social Problem --- Multicide --- Murder, Mass --- Mass graves --- Mass burials. --- Genocide. --- Mass murder. --- Murder --- Cleansing, Ethnic --- Ethnic cleansing --- Ethnic purification --- Ethnocide --- Purification, Ethnic --- Crime --- Burial --- Homicide --- War Crimes. --- history. --- Femicide --- Offenses against the person --- Violent deaths --- History --- Human remains --- Ethics --- Violence --- Destruction --- Exhumation --- Auschwitz concentration camp --- Cremation --- Serbs

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Drugs, sex and a pack of unscrupulous men circling, circling - it was always going to get ugly but no-one foresaw the tragic death of a young woman.

Australians --- Drugs --- Drug overdose --- Overdosage of drugs --- Overdose of drugs --- Poisoning --- Medication errors --- Aussies --- Ethnology --- Overdose. --- Overdosage --- Dosage --- Brimble, Dianne. --- Accidental poisoning --- Trials --- Victims of crimes --- Wrongful death