Skip to main content
SpringerLink
Log in

Not guilty: are the acquitted innocent? By Daniel Givelber and Amy Farrell

New York University Press, 2012

  • Published:
Crime, Law and Social Change Aims and scope Submit manuscript

This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.

Access this article

Log in via an institution

Price excludes VAT (USA)
Tax calculation will be finalised during checkout.

Instant access to the full article PDF.

Institutional subscriptions

References

  1. Abramson, J. (2000). We, the jury: The jury system and the ideal of democracy. Cambridge: Harvard University Press.

    Google Scholar 

  2. Baldus, D. C., Pulaski, C., & Woodworth, G. (1983). Comparative review of death sentences: an empirical study of the Georgia experience. Journal of Criminal Law and Criminology, 74, 661–753.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  3. Bushway, S., & Piehl, A. M. (2001). Judging judicial discretion: legal factors and racial discrimination in sentencing. Law & Society Review, 35, 733–764.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  4. Davis, A. J. (1998). Prosecution and race: the power and privilege of discretion. Fordham Law Review, 67, 13–67.

    Google Scholar 

  5. Davis, A. J. (2007). Racial fairness in the criminal justice system: the role of the prosecutor. Columbia Human Rights Law Review, 39, 202–232.

    Google Scholar 

  6. Engen, R. L., Gainey, R. R., Crutchfield, R. D., & Weis, J. G. (2003). Discretion and disparity under sentencing guidelines: the role of departures and structured sentencing alternatives. Criminology, 41, 99–130.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  7. Fleury-Steiner, B. D., Dunn, K., & Fleury-Steiner, R. (2009). Governing through crime as commonsense racism. Punishment & Society, 11, 5–24.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  8. Frohmann, L. (1997). Convictability and discordant locales: reproducing race, class, and gender ideologies in prosecutorial decisionmaking. Law & Society Review, 31, 531–555.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  9. Kalven, H. J., & Zeisel, H. (1966). The American Jury. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

    Google Scholar 

  10. Keil, T. J., & Vito, G. F. (2006). Capriciousness or fairness? Race and prosecutorial decisions to seek the death penalty in Kentucky. Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice, 4, 27–49.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  11. McCleskey v. Kemp (1987). 481 U.S. 279.

  12. Paternoster, R., & Brame, R. (2008). Reassessing race disparities in Maryland capital cases. Criminology, 46, 971–1008.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  13. Scheck, B., Neufeld, P., & Dwyer, J. (2001). Actual innocence: When justice goes wrong and how to make it right. New York: Signet.

    Google Scholar 

  14. Spohn, C., & Holleran, D. (2000). The imprisonment penalty paid by young, unemployed black and hispanic male offenders. Criminology, 38, 281–306.

    Article  Google Scholar 

  15. Vidmar, N., & Hans, V. P. (2007). American juries: The verdict. Amherst: Prometheus.

    Google Scholar 

Download references

Author information

Authors and Affiliations

  1. Division of Social Services, University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown, Johnstown, PA, USA

    Ross Kleinstuber

Authors
  1. Ross Kleinstuber
    View author publications

    You can also search for this author in PubMed Google Scholar

Corresponding author

Correspondence to Ross Kleinstuber.

Rights and permissions

Reprints and permissions

About this article

Cite this article

Kleinstuber, R. Not guilty: are the acquitted innocent? By Daniel Givelber and Amy Farrell . Crime Law Soc Change 61, 117–123 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-013-9486-2

Download citation

  • Published:

  • Issue Date:

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10611-013-9486-2

Search

Navigation