Abstract
In the United States, more than 1.9 million people are confined across local jails, state prisons, and federal prisons and jails.! Some of those people are innocent of the crimes for which they were convicted. In 2022 alone, 233 people were exonerated of crimes they did not commit.? Collectively, these 233 exonerees lost 2,245 years of their lives to incarceration.? Over the last few decades, as criminal justice reform movements have gained momentum, more attention has tumed to wrongful convictions. Yet much of the consideration has been dedicated to men, not women.* What ex- plains the lack of women featured in the conversation surrounding wrongful convictions? Why are there so few women exonerees? Is it simply because there are fewer wrongfully convicted women? Or is there something special about the kinds of charges women are wrongfully convicted of and the ob- stacles they face in having their convictions overturned?
Recommended Citation
Caroline Brady,
CRIMINALIZING MORAL FAILURES: AN EXPLORATION OF THE DIFFERENCE
BETWEEN WRONGFULLY CONVICTED MEN AND WOMEN,
28
Rich. Pub. Int. L. Rev.
399
(2025).
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https://scholarship.richmond.edu/pilr/vol28/iss3/24