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False Justice Eight Myths That Convict the Innocent, Revised Edition

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ISBN-10: 1138783005

ISBN-13: 9781138783003

Edition: 2015

Authors: Jim Petro, Nancy Petro

List price: $34.95
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Compelling and engagingly written, this book by the former Attorney General of Ohio and his wife takes the reader inside a number of actual cases, summarizes extensive research on the causes and consequences of wrongful conviction, exposing eight common myths that inspire false confidence in the justice system and undermine reform. Now newly published in paperback with an extensive list of web links to wrongful convictions sources throughout the world, False Justice is ideal for use in a wide array of criminal justice and criminology courses.
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Book details

List price: $34.95
Copyright year: 2015
Publisher: Routledge
Publication date: 7/17/2014
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 320
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.990
Language: English

Jim Petrois a former Republican Attorney General of Ohio. Throughout his 35-year career as an attorney and 28-year career as an elected public office holder, he has been publicly committed to strong law-and-order platforms. As Ohio Auditor of State, he and his team cleaned up a corrupt office and performed audits that led to the criminal conviction of an unprecedented 110 public officials in Ohio. His tenure as Attorney General was marked by a nation-leading effort that added 210,000 DNA profiles from Ohio felons and misdemeanants to the national DNA Codis database. This effort resulted in the immediate solving of dozens of cold cases, hundreds over the ensuing months and…