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This guide provides research resources and access information in support of the West Virginia Innocence Project, which aims to serve and to free people who are in prison for crimes they did not commit and to fix the problems that lead to wrongful convictions in our justice system. Materials covered include books, reports, and manuals on wrongful convictions, interdisciplinary journals on criminal justice and forensics, websites on exonerations and forensic evidence, expert witness resources, criminal justice statistics, documentaries and podcasts on criminal justice, the library catalog and interlibrary loan services, law reviews and general secondary legal sources, legal news and popular news, and dockets.

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The Wrongful Convictions Reader by Russell Covey (Editor); Valena Beety (Editor)
Call Number: General Collection KF9756 .W765 2019
ISBN: 9781531006327
Publication Date: 2018-11-01
By gathering the leading research, law, and policy analysis into one volume, The Wrongful Convictions Reader explores the core contributing factors to wrongful convictions: false confessions, witness misidentifications, cognitive bias, junk science, police and prosecutorial misconduct, racial bias, and ineffective assistance of counsel.
You Might Go to Prison, Even Though You're Innocent by Justin Brooks; Barry Scheck (Foreword by)
Call Number: WVU eBook
ISBN: 0520409604
Publication Date: 2024-08-20
Putting readers at the defense table, this book forces us to consider how any of us might be swept up in the system, whether we hired a bad lawyer, bear a slight resemblance to someone else in the world, or are not good with awkward silence.
Autopsy of a Crime Lab by Brandon L. Garrett
Call Number: WVU eBook
ISBN: 9780520976634
Publication Date: 2021-03-23
This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms.
Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System by M. Chris Fabricant
Call Number: WVU eBook
ISBN: 9781636140308
Publication Date: 2022-04-05
Junk Science is a meticulously researched insider's perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions, corrupt prosecutors, and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant's astonishing true-crime narrative.

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