I am Innocent! - Jay Robert Nash

I am Innocent!

A Comprehensive Encyclopedic History of the World's Wrongly Convicted Persons

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Buch | Softcover
832 Seiten
2008
Da Capo Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-306-81560-7 (ISBN)
24,80 inkl. MwSt
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Presents major criminal cases in history involving wrongfully convicted persons. This work graphically details by category how wrongly convicted persons were sent to prison - or to the gallows. It also includes a comprehensive glossary of legal, judicial and law enforcement terms applying to all cases.
Hundreds of cases of history's most famous and infamous wrongly convicted persons, depicting all the hate, revenge, lunacy, deception, greed, corruption, stupidity and common error that sent innocent persons to jail or grave. "I Am Innocent!" presents - in annotated encyclopaedic format and lively prose, accompanied by hundreds of fascinating illustrations - every major criminal case in history involving wrongfully convicted persons. Here you can find all the famously - or infamously - "innocent", from Mary, Queen of Scots to Alfred Dreyfus, from Leo Frank to the Scottsboro Boys, from Dr Sam Sheppard to Anthony Porter, from Joan of Arc to Lindy Chamberlain, as well as hundreds of other cases that have, until now, been lost in obscurity. Unequalled in depth and breadth of coverage, this work graphically details by category (perjury, railroading, framing, suppression of evidence, police and prosecutorial coercion, mistaken identity and prejudicial publicity) how wrongly convicted persons were sent to prison - or to the gallows.
Also included in the book is a comprehensive glossary of legal, judicial and law enforcement terms applying to all cases; an extensive Filmography of films based on actual wrongly convicted case; the most comprehensive Bibliography ever offered on the subject, and an annotated Index providing among many sub-categories, all types of crimes, types of wrongful evidence used to convict, cases by geographical location and judicial decisions listed alphabetically by name of the case.

Jay Robert Nash is widely recognized as a foremost historian, biographer and encyclopaedist. He has authored over seventy single-volume trade and multi-volume reference works, including The Encyclopaedia of World Crime and The Motion Picture Guide. He has worked as a reporter, columnist, editor and publisher in newspapers and magazines and lives in Chicago.

Erscheint lt. Verlag 1.10.2008
Zusatzinfo Over 3000 photos and illustrations
Sprache englisch
Maße 188 x 232 mm
Themenwelt Sachbuch/Ratgeber Beruf / Finanzen / Recht / Wirtschaft Recht / Sonstiges
Schulbuch / Wörterbuch Lexikon / Chroniken
Recht / Steuern Strafrecht Kriminologie
ISBN-10 0-306-81560-5 / 0306815605
ISBN-13 978-0-306-81560-7 / 9780306815607
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