James R. Acker

657 total citations
43 papers, 343 citations indexed

About

James R. Acker is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Law and Political Science and International Relations. According to data from OpenAlex, James R. Acker has authored 43 papers receiving a total of 343 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 29 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 18 papers in Law and 8 papers in Political Science and International Relations. Recurrent topics in James R. Acker's work include Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (26 papers), Criminal Law and Evidence (12 papers) and Torture, Ethics, and Law (9 papers). James R. Acker is often cited by papers focused on Criminal Justice and Corrections Analysis (26 papers), Criminal Law and Evidence (12 papers) and Torture, Ethics, and Law (9 papers). James R. Acker collaborates with scholars based in United States and Ireland. James R. Acker's co-authors include Marian J. Borg, Robert Böhm, Allison D. Redlich, Robert J. Norris, Craig Rivera, William J. Bowers, Catherine Cerulli, Lisa Callahan, Franklin E. Zimring and Gordon Hawkins and has published in prestigious journals such as Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews, Social Forces and Law and Human Behavior.

In The Last Decade

James R. Acker

38 papers receiving 294 citations

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
James R. Acker United States	11	242	108	80	69	55	43	343
Vanessa A. Edkins United States	7	181 0.7×	68 0.6×	71 0.9×	108 1.6×	25 0.5×	15	276
Robert J. Norris United States	10	286 1.2×	81 0.8×	114 1.4×	124 1.8×	64 1.2×	28	380
Elizabeth F. Emens United States	8	132 0.5×	74 0.7×	37 0.5×	57 0.8×	44 0.8×	16	274
Jefferson E. Holcomb United States	7	256 1.1×	53 0.5×	93 1.2×	16 0.2×	40 0.7×	14	306
Edie Greene United States	9	75 0.3×	90 0.8×	52 0.7×	54 0.8×	14 0.3×	23	223
Joshua Dressler United States	8	110 0.5×	76 0.7×	36 0.5×	56 0.8×	43 0.8×	27	227
Terry A. Maroney United States	7	133 0.5×	110 1.0×	46 0.6×	80 1.2×	33 0.6×	21	292
Gwynn Davis United Kingdom	10	180 0.7×	51 0.5×	97 1.2×	24 0.3×	31 0.6×	24	262
Peter Duff United Kingdom	8	233 1.0×	152 1.4×	98 1.2×	20 0.3×	83 1.5×	38	376
Meredith Rossner Australia	10	255 1.1×	94 0.9×	153 1.9×	43 0.6×	65 1.2×	32	365

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20 of 20 papers shown

Acker, James R., et al.. (2020). “I Did It, but . . . I Didn’t”: When Rejected Affirmative Defenses Produce Wrongful Convictions. Nebraska law review. 98(3). 578. 2 indexed citations

Norris, Robert J., et al.. (2020). Thirty Years of Innocence. 1(1). 2–58. 6 indexed citations

Acker, James R.. (2019). Why Children Follow Rules: Legal Socialization and the Development of Legitimacy. Social Forces. 98(2). 1–2. 9 indexed citations

Norris, Robert J., et al.. (2018). When Justice Fails: Causes and Consequences of Wrongful Convictions. Medical Entomology and Zoology. 9 indexed citations

Acker, James R., et al.. (2017). The Execution of Wallace Wilkerson. Criminal Justice Review. 42(4). 349–367.

Acker, James R., et al.. (2016). Elephants in the Courtroom: Examining Overlooked Issues in Wrongful Convictions. Albany law review. 79(3). 705. 1 indexed citations

Acker, James R.. (2013). The Flipside Injustice of Wrongful Convictions: When the Guilty Go Free. Albany law review. 76(3). 1629. 13 indexed citations

Norris, Robert J., et al.. (2011). "Than That One Innocent Suffer": Evaluating State Safeguards against Wrongful Convictions. Albany law review. 74(3). 1301. 9 indexed citations

Acker, James R., et al.. (2010). Protecting the Innocent in New York: Moving beyond Changing Only Their Names. Albany law review. 73(4). 1245. 1 indexed citations

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Acker, James R.. (2010). Wrongful Convictions Then and Now: Lessons to Be Learned. Albany law review. 73(4). 1207. 1 indexed citations

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Acker, James R.. (2009). Actual innocence: is death different?. Behavioral Sciences & the Law. 27(3). 297–311. 6 indexed citations

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Acker, James R.. (2008). ‘The time … has surely arrived’: Justice Stevens and the death penalty. Contemporary Justice Review. 11(3). 287–289. 1 indexed citations

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Acker, James R., et al.. (2006). Causing death and sustaining life: The law, capital punishment, and criminal homicide victims' survivors. 2 indexed citations

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Acker, James R., et al.. (2004). Capital punishment, the moratorium movement, and empirical questions: Looking beyond innocence, race, and bad lawyering in death penalty cases.. Psychology Public Policy and Law. 10(4). 577–617. 5 indexed citations

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Acker, James R., et al.. (2001). Building a Better Youth Court. Law & Policy. 23(2). 197–215. 5 indexed citations

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Borg, Marian J., et al.. (1999). America's Experiment with Capital Punishment: Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Ultimate Penal Sanction. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 28(3). 355–355. 87 indexed citations

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Acker, James R.. (1996). When the Cheering Stopped: An Overview and Analysis of New York's Death Penalty Legislation. Pace law review. 17(1). 41–41. 8 indexed citations

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Acker, James R.. (1993). A Different Agenda: The Supreme Court, Empirical Research Evidence, and Capital Punishment Decisions, 1986–1989. Law & Society Review. 27(1). 65–88. 18 indexed citations

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Acker, James R., et al.. (1989). Challenging the Death Penalty Under State Constitutions. Vanderbilt law review. 42(5). 1299. 4 indexed citations

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Acker, James R., Franklin E. Zimring, & Gordon Hawkins. (1988). Capital Punishment and the American Agenda. Contemporary Sociology A Journal of Reviews. 17(1). 67–67. 2 indexed citations

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