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9780789329363 | Universe Pub, November 10, 2015, cover price $29.95
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9780452298774 | Plume, October 30, 2012, cover price $25.00
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9780520255623 | Univ of California Pr, July 12, 2010, cover price $63.00
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9780520271210 | Univ of California Pr, July 26, 2011, cover price $29.95
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9781223007151 | Gardners Books, October 24, 2010, cover price $55.60
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9780252034398 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 10, 2010, cover price $65.00
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9780252076886 | Univ of Illinois Pr, January 19, 2010, cover price $24.95
Product Description: Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases. Based upon interviews with more than 200 people and reviews of hundreds internal case files, court records, smoking-gun memoranda, and other documents, Scott Christianson gets inside the legal cases, revealing the mistakes, abuses, and underlying factors that led to miscarriages of justice, while also describing how determined prisoners, post-conviction attorneys, advocates, and journalists struggle against tremendous odds to try to win their exonerations...read more
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9780814716342 | New York Univ Pr, February 1, 2004, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases.
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9780814716755 | New York Univ Pr, November 1, 2006, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: Innocent graphically documents forty-two recent criminal cases to find evidence of shocking miscarriages of justice, especially in murder cases.
Defines the term 'forensic' and describes how the different aspects of the science developed from the 1930s to become an important part of investigation. This text starts by discussing evidence collection and goes on to look at the different branches of forensics such as toxicology, anthropology, odontology, psychology, and criminalistics.
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9781843403715 | Gardners Books, September 28, 2006, cover price $23.15 | About this edition: Defines the term 'forensic' and describes how the different aspects of the science developed from the 1930s to become an important part of investigation.
9781592285808 | Lyons Pr, July 1, 2006, cover price $26.95 | About this edition: From the crime scene to the courtroom, forensic science has revolutionized detective investigation over the past seventy years.
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9781592285822 | Lyons Pr, November 1, 2004, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Here are the stories of the most brutal and infamous prisons in history, including the Bastille, Alcatraz, the Tower of London, and San Quentin.
In the annals of American criminal justice, two prisons stand out as icons of institutionalized brutality and deprivation: Alcatraz and Sing Sing. In the 70 odd years before 1963, when the death sentence was declared unconstitutional in New York, Sing Sing was the site of almost one-half of the 1,353 executions carried out in the state. More people were executed at Sing Sing than at any other American prison, yet Sing Sing's death house was, to a remarkable extent, one of the most closed, secret and mythologized places in modern America. In this remarkable book, based on recently revealed archival materials, Scott Christianson takes us on a disturbing and poignant tour of Sing Sing's legendary death house, and introduces us to those whose lives Sing Sing claimed. Within the dusty files were mug shots of each newly arrived prisoner, most still wearing the out-to-court clothes they had on earlier that day when they learned their verdict and were sentenced to death. It is these sometimes bewildered, sometimes defiant, faces that fill the pages of Condemned, along with the documents of their last months at Sing Sing. The reader follows prisoners from their introduction to the rules of Sing Sing, through their contact with guards and psychiatrists, their pleas for clemency, escape attempts, resistance, and their final letters and messages before being put to death. We meet the mother of five accused of killing her husband, the two young Chinese men accused of a murder during a robbery and the drifter who doesn't remember killing at all. While the majority of inmates are everyday people, Julius and Ethel Rosenberg were also executed here, as were the major figures in the infamous Murder Inc., forerunner of the American mafia. Page upon page, Condemned leaves an indelible impression of humanity and suffering. (view table of contents)
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9780814715963 | New York Univ Pr, March 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: In the annals of American criminal justice, two prisons stand out as icons of institutionalized brutality and deprivation: Alcatraz and Sing Sing.
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9780814716168 | New York Univ Pr, October 1, 2001, cover price $26.00
Product Description: A history of imprisonment in the United States that seeks to shed light on the role that incarceration has played in shaping the American experience. It looks at the connection between incarceration and slavery. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781555533649 | Northeastern Univ Pr, November 1, 1998, cover price $40.00 | About this edition: Traces the history of prisons in American society from Columbus' voyages to the New World to the present
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9781555534684 | Northeastern Univ Pr, October 19, 2000, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: A history of imprisonment in the United States that seeks to shed light on the role that incarceration has played in shaping the American experience.
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9780940826007 | Center Minorities & Criminal, November 1, 1981, cover price $85.00
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