Time lost as a result of wrongful conviction: the impact of race and official misconduct across offense categories
Time lost as a result of wrongful conviction: the impact of race and official misconduct across offense categories
Rick Dierenfeldt Ellee Jackson Sherah L. Basham Gale Iles Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies, University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Chattanooga, Tennessee, USARick Dierenfeldt, PhD, is a UC Foundation Associate Professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His research interests include the intersection of structure, culture, race, gender, and crime, and policy evaluation in policing and corrections. His most recent publications have appeared in the Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, American Journal of Criminal Justice, Crime and Delinquency, Deviant Behavior, and the Journal of Criminal Justice.Ellee Jackson is currently enrolled in the MSCJ program in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research interests include gun crime, policing, and wrongful convictions.Sherah L. Basham, PhD, is an assistant professor in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, in Chattanooga, Tennessee. She holds a PhD in Criminal Justice and has over 20 years of experience in the criminal justice field in the areas of investigations, campus security, and higher education. Her research interests include policing, campus law enforcement, Real Time Crime Centers, and alternative police response. Her most recent research appears in Policing: An International Journal and the Journal of Criminal Justice Education.Gale Iles, PhD, is an associate professor of Criminal Justice in the Department of Social, Cultural, and Justice Studies at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Her research interests lie in sentencing practices, particularly the identification and examination of unwarranted sentencing disparities and racial and ethnic inequalities in the administration of justice. She has also done work in the areas of comparative cross-national crime and delinquency. Her most recent works have appeared in the International Journal of Offender Therapy and Comparative Criminology, and the Journal of Ethnicity in Criminal Justice.