James R. Acker

660 citations
49 papers · 402 · h-index 12

Impact in

  • Law top 1%
    • Jury Decision Making Processes
    • Judicial and Constitutional Studies
    • Legal Education and Practice Innovations
    • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis
    • Crime Patterns and Interventions
    • Torture, Ethics, and Law

Papers in

    • Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis 32
    • Torture, Ethics, and Law 10
  • Law 18
    • Criminal Law and Evidence 12
    • Jury Decision Making Processes 6
    • Legal Education and Practice Innovations 6

James R. Acker

43 papers receiving 342 citations

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James R. Acker
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  • Law 118
  • Sociology and Political Science 284
  • Clinical Psychology 88
  • Pharmacy 16
  • Social Psychology 76
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All Works

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#Work
1 1999101
2 199022
3 199319
4 201918
5 200317
6
The Future of America's Death Penalty: An Agenda for the Next Generation of Capital Punishment Research
200815
7 200314
8
The Flipside Injustice of Wrongful Convictions: When the Guilty Go Free
201313
9 200912
10 201611
11 201911
12
Wrongful Conviction: Law, Science, and Policy
201111
13
"Than That One Innocent Suffer": Evaluating State Safeguards against Wrongful Convictions
201110
14 201710
15 199610
16 199010
17
When Justice Fails: Causes and Consequences of Wrongful Convictions
201810
18 19969
19 20048
20 20206

About James R. Acker

James R. Acker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law, Political Science and International Relations, Economics and Econometrics and Social Psychology, having authored 49 papers that have together received 402 indexed citations. Recurring topics across this work include Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (32 papers), Criminal Law and Evidence (12 papers), Torture, Ethics, and Law (10 papers), Deception detection and forensic psychology (6 papers), Jury Decision Making Processes (6 papers), Legal Systems and Judicial Processes (6 papers), Legal Education and Practice Innovations (6 papers) and Legal and Constitutional Studies (4 papers). The work is most often cited by research in Law (118 citations), Sociology and Political Science (284 citations), Clinical Psychology (88 citations), Pharmacy (16 citations) and Social Psychology (76 citations). James R. Acker has collaborated with scholars based in United States and Ireland. Frequent co-authors include Robert Böhm, Marian J. Borg, Allison D. Redlich, Robert J. Norris, Craig Rivera, William J. Bowers, Catherine Cerulli, Lisa Callahan, Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins. Their work appears in journals such as Criminal Justice Review, Justice Quarterly, Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Social Forces and Criminology & Public Policy.

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