Wrongful Conviction Review: Henry James

Wrongful convictions are convictions where "factually innocent people are convicted of crimes" (Acker & Redlich, 2011, p.3). There are a number of ways that wrongful convictions can occur. Two of these ways are no crime convictions and wrong man convictions (Acker & Reclich, 2011, p.7-8). No crime convictions occur when someone is convicted of a crime, generally murder, and then it is later discovered that no crime has been committed. Wrong man convictions are far more common; they occur when a crime has been committed, but the wrong person has been convicted of the crime. However, crimes in which the correct person is convicted of the crime, while there may be legal problems with their conviction, are not considered wrongful convictions. Another name for wrongful conviction is actual innocence.

It is impossible to assess how many innocent people are actually in prison, today. The reality...
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