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Convicted but innocent: Wrongful conviction and the criminal justice system.
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This article surveys the literature on those cases and describes these wrongful convictions by the distribution of offenses, of sentences, of actual punishment inflicted, and types of error contributing to the wrongful conviction.Abstract:
Legal literature from the beginning of the century, as well as more recent studies, furnish us with accounts of cases of innicent men and women who were tried and convicted of serious crimes throughout the United States. This study surveys the literature on those cases and describes these wrongful convictions by the distribution of offenses, of sentences, of actual punishment inflicted, and types of error contributing to the wrongful conviction.read more
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THE DARK SIDE OF ORGANIZATIONS: Mistake, Misconduct, and Disaster
TL;DR: In this article, a Simmelian-based case comparison method of analogical theorizing is used to examine three types of routine nonconformity with adverse outcomes that harm the public: mistake, misconduct, and disaster produced in and by organizations.
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Eyewitness Identification Procedures: Recommendations for Lineups and Photospreads
Gary L. Wells,Mark A. Small,Steven D. Penrod,Roy S. Malpass,Solomon M. Fulero,C. A. E. Brimacombe +5 more
TL;DR: In this paper, three important themes from the scientific literature relevant to lineup methods were identified and reviewed, namely relative-judgment processes, the lineups-as-experiments analogy, and confidence malleability.
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The Psychology of Confessions A Review of the Literature and Issues
TL;DR: It is argued that there is a need to reform interrogation practices that increase the risk of false confessions and recommend a policy of mandatory videotaping of all interviews and interrogations.
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The Social Psychology of False Confessions: Compliance, Internalization, and Confabulation
TL;DR: The authors showed that false incriminating evidence can lead people to accept guilt for a crime they did not commit, and found that subjects in the fast-pace/witness group were more likely to sign a confession, internalize guilt for the event, and confabulate details in memory consistent with that belief.
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The Repair of Trust: A Dynamic Bilateral Perspective and Multilevel Conceptualization
TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigate the repair of trust by examining the cognitive and interpersonal processes through which people resolve differences in their interpersonal beliefs and develop a multilevel conceptualization of how trust repair may be pursued.
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Planned Organizational Change: Toward Grounded Theory
TL;DR: In this article, retrospective case analysis is applied to a sample of 67 successful and unsuccessful change efforts and results of bivariate analysis suggest that only three out of eleven leading hypotheses about the conditions of successful change efforts (viz., those involving collaborative modes of intervention, participative change-agent orientations and strategies emphasizing high levels of participation) are weakly to moderately supported by available evidence.