Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights

Assessing Compensation Statutes For The Wrongly Convicted

As the discovery of wrongful convictions grows, so does concern in the legal community and public sphere about actual innocence. Though research on miscarriages of justice has grown tremendously, most has focused on the factors contributing to wrongful convictions, with relatively little attention paid to the post-release struggles of exonerees. Specifically, social scientists have not yet exam...

An Empirical Reexamination of State Statutory Compensation for the Wrongly Convicted

An appropriate measure of a just society is how it treats those whom the government harms most severely. As frequent and well-publicized exonerations have been etched into the public consciousness over the last several years, a number of scholars have engaged in the study of compensation for such a group – those wrongly convicted. The general tenor of the resulting articles is one of disappoint...

Individual rights and social justice.

Justice-Involved Women with Co-occurring Disorders and Their Children

Women with “co-occurring disorders” are a diverse group—they may have major depression, bipolar disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder, in addition to their addiction to one or more drugs. Some suffer from psychotic spectrum disorders, including schizophrenia. Treatment of their complex, interactive disorders will span a several year period and involve admissions to hospitals, participation...

Justice and rights to health care.