Endowed Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice Lecture: Wrongfully Convicted - Lessons from the Canadian Registry

6:30 PM

Kinsella Auditorium

Join us on Tuesday, October 10 at 6:30 PM in Kinsella Auditorium, McCain Hall for the Endowed Chair in Criminology and Criminal Justice Lecture “Wrongfully Convicted: Lessons from the Canadian Registry” by Prof. Kent Roach, University of Toronto Faculty of Law.

Roach will explore themes from his 2023 book, Wrongfully Convicted: Guilty Pleas, Imagined Crimes, and What Canada Must Do to Safeguard Justice. He will discuss recommendations for addressing the causes of wrongful convictions, including better legislative oversight of law enforcement and forensic experts, and the creation of a permanent and independent federal commission to investigate wrongful convictions.

About Kent Roach

Prof. Roach has taught a course on wrongful convictions at the University of Toronto for more than twenty years and has examined several cases featuring unjust criminal convictions. With former students, he co-founded the Canadian Registry of Wrongful Convictions, a database of 83 publicly documented cases of exonerated wrongful convictions.

He has written seventeen books on criminal law, criminal procedure, constitutional law, and Indigenous justice. Canadian Justice and Indigenous Injustice: The Gerald Stanley and Colten Boushie Case(2019) was shortlisted for the Shaughnessy Cohen Prize for Political Writing, and Canadian Policing: Why and How it Must Change was a finalist for the 2022 Balsillie Prize for Public Policy and 2023 Donner Prize for Public Policy. He has written over 275 articles and chapters, served as editor-in chief of the Criminal Law Quarterly since 1998, and is regularly cited by the Supreme Court of Canada.