Introduction: Discourses of guilt and innocence : the innocence movement as a narrative movement -- Speaking of the truth : law, narratology, and the narrative imagination -- The evidentiary power of stories : narrativizing guilt in an adversarial system -- Storytelling in an inquisitorial system : truer stories? -- Anatomy of a German wrongful conviction : failing truth? -- Conclusion : the ultimate dystopia or toward a narrative of legal truth?
Summary
"This book puts wrongful convictions into a narrative and comparative context, showing that processes of narrativization affect how legal reality is constructed and function as their own kind of evidence-the desire to tell a convincing story is universal and can override the regulatory and procedural setup of any given system"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes
Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 17, 2023)
