This Cursed Beautiful Land
This Cursed Beautiful Land
Evan Gershkovich
Published 2026
320 pages
The latest wrongful conviction books
These books tell of people punished for crimes they did not commit. A flawed investigation or a false witness puts an innocent person behind bars, and the fight to clear their name can take decades. True accounts and novels here are gripping and deeply unsettling. The newest come first.
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True Witness Cops, Courts, Science, and the Battle against Misidentification
James M. Doyle
Published 2025
239 pages
Free
Amanda Knox
Published 2025
Framed Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
John Grisham, Jim McCloskey
2024 · 2025 edition
368 pages
Coming Home
Brittney Griner, Michelle Burford
Published 2024
256 pages
From Death Row to Freedom The Struggle for Racial Justice in the Pitts-Lee Case
Phillip A. Hubbart
Published 2023
404 pages
Narratives of Guilt and Innocence The Power of Storytelling in Wrongful Conviction Cases
Ralph Grunewald
Published 2023
288 pages
Murder, Wrongful Conviction and the Law An International Comparative Analysis
Jon Robins
Published 2023
258 pages
New True Crime
Diana Rickard
Published 2023
The Three Death Sentences of Clarence Henderson
Chris Joyner
Published 2022
352 pages
Beyond Innocence The Life Sentence of Darryl Hunt
Phoebe Zerwick
2022 · 2023 edition
352 pages
The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims
Nicky Jackson, Kathryn M. Campbell, Margaret Pate
Published 2022
162 pages
Convictions Without Truth (Routledge Frontiers of Criminal Justice)
Robert Schehr
Published 2022
94 pages
Innocent Black Man Illegally Convicted for Rape Charges without an Arrest or Arraignment
Senrick Wilkerson
Published 2022
102 pages
Young, Corker and Summers on Abuse of Process in Criminal Proceedings
David Young
Published 2022
712 pages
The Fortune Men
Nadifa Mohamed
2021 · 2022 edition
320 pages
Better, Not Bitter
Yusef Salaam
Published 2021
288 pages
Two Truths and a Lie
Ellen McGarrahan
2021 · 2022 edition
384 pages
A Shot in the Moonlight
Ben Montgomery
Published 2021
304 pages
Why the Innocent Plead Guilty and the Guilty Go Free And Other Paradoxes of Our Broken Legal System
Jed S. Rakoff
Published 2021
208 pages
Count
Ibrahim Moustafa
Published 2021
136 pages
ALL IN!
Chris Bertish
2021 · 2022 edition
306 pages
The Freshwater Five A Fishing Crew's Fight for Justice After Being Jailed for 104 Years
Jamie Green, Mike Dunn
Published 2021
320 pages
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Judicial Murder [electronic Resource] The Case of Lieutenant Wark
E. R. Grain
Published 2021
76 pages