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wrongful conviction: a standalone construct

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Criminology

the conviction of a factually innocent person, with its causes such as eyewitness error, false confessions and misconduct, and its policy remedies.

In criminology, wrongful conviction refers to the conviction of a factually innocent person, with its causes such as eyewitness error, false confessions and misconduct, and its policy remedies. This meaning comes from Huff (2002) in Criminology.[1]

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References

Huff, C. R. (2002). Wrongful Conviction and Public Policy: the American Society of Criminology 2001 Presidential Address. Criminology, 40(1), 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1745-9125.2002.tb00947.x

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