The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims

In The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims, Drs. Nicky Jackson, Kathryn M. Campbell, and Margaret Pate powerfully position the experiences of people who are wrongly convicted as "victims" of a criminal legal system in desperate need of reform. The authors take their analysis one step further, and extend the victimology framework to the other victims of wrongful convictions - the families of the wrongly convicted, the original survivors of actual crimes, and society at large. Grounded in qualitative research and in victim theories, this book is a welcome and compelling addition to the wrongful conviction literature.

Jessica S. Henry, author of Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never Happened

The subject matter of The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims is an important contribution to the study of wrongful convictions. Professors Jackson, Campbell, and Pate have undertaken a tremendous task - to situate the experiences of the wrongly convicted as victims, and their families as secondary victims of a state crime - and they have succeeded. They have also forced readers to confront the realities that exonerees and their families experience - enduring great emotional, psychological, and financial hardships, similar to other crime victims. This comprehensive, academic analysis of the victimology of a wrongful conviction, is a must-read for innocence scholars and victimologists.

Mark Godsey, author of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions