Narratives of Guilt and Innocence : : The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases / / Ralph Grunewald.
Illustrates how the power of narrative influences how police, prosecutors, juries, and judges constructlegal realityWrongful convictions have been studied primarily through the lenses of law, psychology, and the social sciences. Though scholarship has established canonical factors that help explain...
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| Year of Publication: | 2023 |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: Realms of Truth and Justice
- 1. Discourses of Guilt and Innocence: The Innocence Movement as a Narrative Movement
- 2. Speaking of the Truth: Law, Narratology, and the Narrative Imagination
- 3. The Evidentiary Power of Stories: Narrativizing Guilt in an Adversarial System
- 4. Storytelling in an Inquisitorial System: Truer Stories?
- 5. Anatomy of a German Wrongful Conviction: Failing Truth?
- 6. Conclusion: The Ultimate Dystopia or Toward a Narrative of Legal Truth?
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- About the Author