Crime Fictions

From sociologist Nicole Gonzalez Van Cleve, this compelling audiobook uncovers the systemic use of wrongful convictions to target Black youth, revealing that hundreds of innocent lives are caught in a deliberate and patterned justice process. Based on years of research, it details how fabricated evidence, coerced confessions, and media narratives work together to produce conviction "fictions" that often lead to wrongful imprisonment. Centered on the stories of those who have been exonerated, the narrative exposes troubling patterns within the American criminal justice system.