Exonerations in the United States, 1989 through 2003

By Samuel R. Gross, Kristen Jacoby, Daniel J. Matheson, N. Montgomery, S. Patil. 2005

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Convicting the Innocent (2008, background): “More than seventy daycare defendants were convicted of child molestation and other serious felonies; hundreds of others were arrested and charged (Gross et al. 2005).”
LOW BASE RATES LIMIT EXPERT CERTAINTY WHEN CURRENT ACTUARIALS ARE USED TO IDENTIFY SEXUALLY VIOLENT PREDATORS An Application of Bayes's Theorem (2006, methodology): “…based on old data that do not take into account such factors as a) the increase in exonerations attributable to improved methods of investigation (Gross et al., 2005; Kanin, 1994); b) apparent decreases in the sexual recidivism rate that are reported in recent documents (Adkins et al., 2000;…”