This article promotes further study of the wrongful convictions of women and make policy recommendations to reduce those wrongful convictions.
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This article discusses the concept of rape culture and explains the psychological process by which rape culture might influence juror decision making in sexual assault trials.
- Justice CommentariesThis paper investigates the effects of gender and gender role incongruence on the determination of criminal responsibility.
- Justice CommentariesWhat are the behavioral consequences when women violate society’s gender norms by committing a crime and participating in a criminal justice system that has been designed for male offenders?
- Justice CommentariesThis note turns a critical eye on the availability of the “gay panic” defense in modern American courtrooms.
This essay introduces the six articles that follow in this collection and assesses what they say about the contemporary state of research in public defense generally.
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This essay recounts public defense providers assessing both their ability to adhere to the Ten Principles as well as the day-to-day impediments they are dealing with.
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This article seeks to reconcile the competing definitions of holistic defense and to develop a unified framework for empirically evaluating holistic defense.
- Justice CommentariesThis article outlines how disparities in resources and differences in courtroom roles may put public defenders at a distinct disadvantage in cases adjudicated through trial.
- Justice CommentariesThis article explains how data collection and analysis can improve public defender practice.
- Justice CommentariesThis article introduces participatory defense as a powerful new model for reforming public defense and challenging mass incarceration.
- Justice CommentariesThis paper examines the empirical research on the types of indigent defense representation, juvenile indigent defense, and the emerging research on holistic defense.
- Justice CommentariesThis article looks into the so-called trans* panic defense through dual means: the deception trope and a reliance upon a societal predilection towards dichotomous gender identities and roles.