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Wrongful Conviction Sexual Assault: Stranger Rape, Acquaintance and Intra-familial Child Assaults

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Wrongful Conviction Sexual Assault: Stranger Rape, Acquaintance and Intra-familial Child Assaults
Wrongful Conviction Sexual Assault: Stranger Rape, Acquaintance and Intra-familial Child Assaults

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Wrongful Conviction Sexual Assault: Stranger Rape, Acquaintance and Intra-familial Child Assaults

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In , Matthew Barry Johnson introduces new directions in wrongful conviction research and understanding. Citing Innocence Project and National Registry of Exoneration data, the book identifies sexual assault as the predominant offense type associated with confirmed wrongful convictions in the US. Johnson outlines the differential risk of wrongful conviction associated with stranger rape, acquaintance rape, and intra-familial child sexual abuse. He also introduces new terms and concepts such as "black box" investigation, illustrating the lack of transparency in the production of prosecution evidence; a four-part stranger rape thesis; and the "moral outrage - moral correction" process that results in cognitive and emotional factors that interfere with the evaluation of criminal evidence. The book also includes chapters on racial bias in rape prosecution, and the relationship of serial sex offending to wrongful conviction. Citing both foundational and newly-introduced conviction research, Johnson illustrates unexamined aspects of well-known wrongful conviction cases (i.e. The Central Park Five, Steve Avery, Ronald Cotton, The Norfolk Four) and presents the lessons from lesser known wrongful convictions. provides valuable new perspectives and insight for psychologists, defense lawyers, prosecutors, crime investigators, and social justice scholars.

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