Jessica S Henry

(Author)

Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never HappenedHardcover, 4 August 2020

Smoke But No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes That Never Happened
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Print Length
264 pages
Language
English
Publisher
University of California Press
Date Published
4 Aug 2020
ISBN-10
0520300645
ISBN-13
9780520300644

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2020 Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Awards Winner, Silver ****(Political and Social Sciences)
Winner of the Montaigne Medal, awarded to "the most thought-provoking books"

The first book to explore a shocking yet all-too-common type of wrongful conviction--one that locks away innocent people for crimes that never actually happened.

Rodricus Crawford was convicted and sentenced to die for the murder by suffocation of his beautiful baby boy. After years on death row, evidence confirmed what Crawford had claimed all along: he was innocent, and his son had died from an undiagnosed illness. Crawford is not alone. A full one-third of all known exonerations stem from no-crime wrongful convictions.

The first book to explore this common but previously undocumented type of wrongful conviction, Smoke but No Fire tells the heartbreaking stories of innocent people convicted of crimes that simply never happened. A suicide is mislabeled a homicide. An accidental fire is mislabeled an arson. Corrupt police plant drugs on an innocent suspect. A false allegation of assault is invented to resolve a custody dispute. With this book, former New York City public defender Jessica S. Henry sheds essential light on a deeply flawed criminal justice system that allows--even encourages--these convictions to regularly occur. Smoke but No Fire promises to be eye-opening reading for legal professionals, students, activists, and the general public alike as it grapples with the chilling reality that far too many innocent people spend real years behind bars for fictional crimes.

Product Details

Author:
Jessica S Henry
Book Format:
Hardcover
Country of Origin:
US
Date Published:
4 August 2020
Dimensions:
23.62 x 16 x 2.29 cm
ISBN-10:
0520300645
ISBN-13:
9780520300644
Language:
English
Pages:
264
Weight:
566.99 gm

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