In recent times of increasing focus on the wrongly convicted, nearly all national media coverage concentrates on male exonerees. This book brings us a wealth of information on wrongly convicted women, and the incredibly unfortunate, but all too common, life circumstances that ultimately brought them into the criminal justice system, including poverty, trauma, addiction, and mental illness.
Two books out this year from Valena Beety, AB ’02, JD ’06, reflect the commitments that have guided her career for the last 13 years. She’s the author of Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights, and the coeditor of The Wrongful Convictions Reader. Now deputy director of the Academy for Justice at Arizona State University’s Sandra Day O’Connor College of Law, she was a staff attorney at the Mississippi Innocence Project and the founding director of the West Virginia Innocence Project.
Wrongfully convicted women face unique challenges. The criminal justice system accuses them not only of committing crimes, but of violating social expectations. Small wonder, then, that wrongfully convicted women are more likely than their male counterparts to be convicted of crimes against children—and of crimes that never even happened.
The Supreme Court’s decision yesterday in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health does more than overturn the landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade ruling, which held that pregnant people have a constitutional right to abortion health care under the 14th Amendment’s Due Process Clause.
Featured on Literary Hub – https://lithub.com/in-the-opioid-epidemic-prosecutions-dont-always-help-victims/ After working as a Rape Victim Advocate, I knew that I wanted to become […]
Featured on ABC – https://www.abc15.com/news/state/clarence-dixons-execution-reignites-death-penalty-debate Clarence Dixon is scheduled to be the first person executed in Arizona in eight years on […]
Sign up to newsletter to receive latest news and opinions.
