Women are mostly forgotten victims in the scourge of wrongful convictions. For the most part, women are convicted of committing crimes in which there is no biological evidence. Hence, wrongly convicted women are rarely exonerated by the type of indisputable DNA testing that garners wrongly convicted inmates publicity and sympathy.
As noted on http://www.womenandinnocence.com, “Female clients in innocence work represent a different population. That is, they are not more apples, they are oranges, and categorically divergent in some ways from men. By so being they require a body of research and attention particularized so that defense efforts can be most efficiently strategized.”
Zieva Dauber Konvisser has made a significant contribution to that body of research with her article “Psychological Consequences of Wrongful Conviction in Women and the Possibility of Positive Change” in the spring 2012 issue of DePaul Journal for Social Justice. You can read it here.
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