Featured on Arts Fuse – https://artsfuse.org/263650/book-review-manifesting-justice-powerful-tools-in-the-struggle-to-reform-the-american-justice-system/ Manifesting Justice: Wrongly Convicted Women Reclaim Their Rights by Valena Beety. Citadel Press, 338 pages, […]
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.
The Show spoke with Beety to learn about the women’s story and how it fits into the U.S. justice system.
In this episode of the Short Fuse Podcast, Elizabeth Howard is in conversation with Valena Beety, author of Manifesting Justice: […]
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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. What can we do about it?
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