The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction

Nicky Ali Jackson is a Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). Dr. Jackson is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance at PNW. She also serves as President of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition. Dr. Jackson is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest civilian honor, bestowed by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb for her humanity and service to the citizens of Indiana. Kathryn M. Campbell is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada and has published extensively in the area of miscarriages of justice. Dr. Campbell is the faculty director of Innocence Ottawa, a pro-bono, student run innocence project aimed at helping the wrongly convicted who are seeking exoneration apply for conviction review to the Minister of Justice. Margaret Pate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Radford University. Dr. Pate is also the Associate Director in the Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship at Radford.

Foreword by Lenore Walker
Preface by Jeffrey Mark Deskovic

Section I. Victimology: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims

1. Introduction: Definitions, Methodology, and Demographics

2. Victimology: Theoretical Perspectives and their Applications to the Wrongly Convicted

3. The Nature and Extent of Wrongful Convictions

4. Victimizing the Innocent: Racism, Wrongful Convictions, and Exonerations of Black Men in the Criminal Legal System

Section II. The Many Victims of a Wrongful Conviction

5. The Exoneree as Victim

6. Female Victims of a Wrongful Conviction: Continual Marginalization

7. Family as Victims of a Wrongful Conviction

8. Revictimization of the Original Victim

9. Society as a Victim of a Wrongful Conviction

10. Post-release Victimization: "Freedom is Never Free"

11. Final Thoughts and Future Considerations