...Janani Umamaheswar Abstract Despite a growing body of scholarship on wrongful convictions, research on the prison and pre-prison experiences of wrongfully-convicted men (including the racialized nature of these experiences) continues to be limited. In this article, I draw on in-depth interviews...

...%) as belonging to either a guilty or a not-guilty category. The classification was found to be as expected for all test cases. All guilty test cases that were not wrongful convictions were correctly assigned to the guilty category by our model and, crucially, test cases that were wrongful convictions were...

...-categories [that can be] distinguished. Against such all-inclusive approaches, my own recent research on the causation of successful appeals argued that if we are interested in thinking about the nature of wrongful convictions and how they might be prevented, then how they are defined is crucial. Put simply...

... of a specific ratio of innocent persons convicted to guilty persons acquitted that is more favorable to the innocent. How much more favorable? While every court and scholar would agree that it is desirable to reduce the number of wrongful convictions, how many more wrongful acquittals are we willing to tolerate...