Nicky Ali Jackson is a Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). Dr. Jackson is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance at PNW. She also serves as President of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition. Dr. Jackson is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest civilian honor, bestowed by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb for her humanity and service to the citizens of Indiana.Kathryn M. Campbell is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada and has published extensively in the area of miscarriages of justice. Dr. Campbell is the faculty director of Innocence Ottawa, a pro-bono, student run innocence project aimed at helping the wrongly convicted who are seeking exoneration apply for conviction review to the Minister of Justice. Margaret Pate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Radford University. Dr. Pate is also the Associate Director in the Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship at Radford.

In The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims, Drs. Nicky Jackson, Kathryn M. Campbell, and Margaret Pate powerfully position the experiences of people who are wrongly convicted as "victims" of a criminal legal system in desperate need of reform. The authors take their analysis one step further, and extend the victimology framework to the other victims of wrongful convictions – the families of the wrongly convicted, the original survivors of actual crimes, and society at large. Grounded in qualitative research and in victim theories, this book is a welcome and compelling addition to the wrongful conviction literature. Jessica S. Henry, author of Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never HappenedThe subject matter of The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims is an important contribution to the study of wrongful convictions. Professors Jackson, Campbell, and Pate have undertaken a tremendous task – to situate the experiences of the wrongly convicted as victims, and their families as secondary victims of a state crime – and they have succeeded. They have also forced readers to confront the realities that exonerees and their families experience – enduring great emotional, psychological, and financial hardships, similar to other crime victims. This comprehensive, academic analysis of the victimology of a wrongful conviction, is a must-read for innocence scholars and victimologists. Mark Godsey, author of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

• Foreword by Lenore WalkerPreface by Jeffrey Mark DeskovicSection I. Victimology: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims1. Introduction: Definitions, Methodology, and Demographics2. Victimology: Theoretical Perspectives and their Applications to the Wrongly Convicted3. The Nature and Extent of Wrongful Convictions4. Victimizing the Innocent: Racism, Wrongful Convictions, and Exonerations of Black Men in the Criminal Legal SystemSection II. The Many Victims of a Wrongful Conviction5. The Exoneree as Victim 6. Female Victims of a Wrongful Conviction: Continual Marginalization7. Family as Victims of a Wrongful Conviction8. Revictimization of the Original Victim9. Society as a Victim of a Wrongful Conviction10. Post-release Victimization: "Freedom is Never Free"11. Final Thoughts and Future Considerations

Nicky Ali Jackson is a Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). Dr. Jackson is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance at PNW. She also serves as President of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition. Dr. Jackson is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest civilian honor, bestowed by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb for her humanity and service to the citizens of Indiana.Kathryn M. Campbell is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada and has published extensively in the area of miscarriages of justice. Dr. Campbell is the faculty director of Innocence Ottawa, a pro-bono, student run innocence project aimed at helping the wrongly convicted who are seeking exoneration apply for conviction review to the Minister of Justice. Margaret Pate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Radford University. Dr. Pate is also the Associate Director in the Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship at Radford.

In The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims, Drs. Nicky Jackson, Kathryn M. Campbell, and Margaret Pate powerfully position the experiences of people who are wrongly convicted as "victims" of a criminal legal system in desperate need of reform. The authors take their analysis one step further, and extend the victimology framework to the other victims of wrongful convictions – the families of the wrongly convicted, the original survivors of actual crimes, and society at large. Grounded in qualitative research and in victim theories, this book is a welcome and compelling addition to the wrongful conviction literature. Jessica S. Henry, author of Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never HappenedThe subject matter of The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims is an important contribution to the study of wrongful convictions. Professors Jackson, Campbell, and Pate have undertaken a tremendous task – to situate the experiences of the wrongly convicted as victims, and their families as secondary victims of a state crime – and they have succeeded. They have also forced readers to confront the realities that exonerees and their families experience – enduring great emotional, psychological, and financial hardships, similar to other crime victims. This comprehensive, academic analysis of the victimology of a wrongful conviction, is a must-read for innocence scholars and victimologists. Mark Godsey, author of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

• Foreword by Lenore WalkerPreface by Jeffrey Mark DeskovicSection I. Victimology: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims1. Introduction: Definitions, Methodology, and Demographics2. Victimology: Theoretical Perspectives and their Applications to the Wrongly Convicted3. The Nature and Extent of Wrongful Convictions4. Victimizing the Innocent: Racism, Wrongful Convictions, and Exonerations of Black Men in the Criminal Legal SystemSection II. The Many Victims of a Wrongful Conviction5. The Exoneree as Victim 6. Female Victims of a Wrongful Conviction: Continual Marginalization7. Family as Victims of a Wrongful Conviction8. Revictimization of the Original Victim9. Society as a Victim of a Wrongful Conviction10. Post-release Victimization: "Freedom is Never Free"11. Final Thoughts and Future Considerations

Nicky Ali Jackson is a Professor and Coordinator of Criminal Justice in the Department of Behavioral Sciences at Purdue University Northwest (PNW). Dr. Jackson is the Executive Director of the Center for Justice and Post-Exoneration Assistance at PNW. She also serves as President of the Willie T. Donald Exoneration Advisory Coalition. Dr. Jackson is a 2021 recipient of the prestigious Sagamore of the Wabash Award, the highest civilian honor, bestowed by Indiana Governor Eric Holcomb for her humanity and service to the citizens of Indiana.Kathryn M. Campbell is a Professor in the Department of Criminology at the University of Ottawa, Canada and has published extensively in the area of miscarriages of justice. Dr. Campbell is the faculty director of Innocence Ottawa, a pro-bono, student run innocence project aimed at helping the wrongly convicted who are seeking exoneration apply for conviction review to the Minister of Justice. Margaret Pate is an Associate Professor in the Department of Criminal Justice at Radford University. Dr. Pate is also the Associate Director in the Office of Undergraduate Research & Scholarship at Radford.

In The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims, Drs. Nicky Jackson, Kathryn M. Campbell, and Margaret Pate powerfully position the experiences of people who are wrongly convicted as "victims" of a criminal legal system in desperate need of reform. The authors take their analysis one step further, and extend the victimology framework to the other victims of wrongful convictions – the families of the wrongly convicted, the original survivors of actual crimes, and society at large. Grounded in qualitative research and in victim theories, this book is a welcome and compelling addition to the wrongful conviction literature. Jessica S. Henry, author of Smoke but No Fire: Convicting the Innocent of Crimes that Never HappenedThe subject matter of The Victimology of a Wrongful Conviction: Innocent Inmates and Indirect Victims is an important contribution to the study of wrongful convictions. Professors Jackson, Campbell, and Pate have undertaken a tremendous task – to situate the experiences of the wrongly convicted as victims, and their families as secondary victims of a state crime – and they have succeeded. They have also forced readers to confront the realities that exonerees and their families experience – enduring great emotional, psychological, and financial hardships, similar to other crime victims. This comprehensive, academic analysis of the victimology of a wrongful conviction, is a must-read for innocence scholars and victimologists. Mark Godsey, author of Blind Injustice: A Former Prosecutor Exposes the Psychology and Politics of Wrongful Convictions

• Foreword by Lenore WalkerPreface by Jeffrey Mark DeskovicSection I. Victimology: The Wrongly Convicted as Victims1. Introduction: Definitions, Methodology, and Demographics2. Victimology: Theoretical Perspectives and their Applications to the Wrongly Convicted3. The Nature and Extent of Wrongful Convictions4. Victimizing the Innocent: Racism, Wrongful Convictions, and Exonerations of Black Men in the Criminal Legal SystemSection II. The Many Victims of a Wrongful Conviction5. The Exoneree as Victim 6. Female Victims of a Wrongful Conviction: Continual Marginalization7. Family as Victims of a Wrongful Conviction8. Revictimization of the Original Victim9. Society as a Victim of a Wrongful Conviction10. Post-release Victimization: "Freedom is Never Free"11. Final Thoughts and Future Considerations