The IRE Resource Center is a major research library containing more than 23,250 investigative stories — both print and broadcast. Add to that more than 3,000 tipsheets from our national conferences on how to cover specific beats or do specific stories and you have a resource that no reporter or editor should be without. These stories and tipsheets are searchable online or by contacting the Resource Center directly (573-882-3364 or rescntr@ire.org) where a researcher can help you pinpoint what you need. Browse or search the tipsheet section of our library below. Logged-in members can view the tipsheets free online:
Search results for "convicted" ...
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Check your sources: Figuring out what criminal justice data and documents really say
Gabrielson's tipsheet addresses identifying the shortcomings in data - specifically criminal justice data. Gabrielson points out common mistakes made when using the data, and how to avoid them.
Tags: Uniform Crime Reports; police records; Federal Bureau of Investigations; FBI; clearance rates; clearance rates; conviction rates
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Criminal justice investigations: tips from unexpected people and documents
This tipsheet touches on unexpected people and documents in criminal justice reporting. "Rivalries and jealousies open the door to tips and document leaks for well-positioned reporters." Diedrich details a number of these type of sources and materials.
Tags: crime; justice; police; Federal Bureau of Investigation; probation agents; judges; clerks; convicts; warrants; arrest reports; autopsy records; indictments; trial exhibits
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Immigration Consequences of Criminal Conviction
This tipsheet offers "a brief overview of parts of immigration laws which are relevant to attorneys defending non-citizens against criminal charges."
Tags: immigration; law; government; justice; attorneys; courts; deportation
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Hospitals and other medical investigations
Brink provides tips on investigating the health care - or lack thereof - provided for female prisoners at the Carswell Federal Medical Center near Fort Worth, Texas, which is the only full-service prison hospital in the country for mentally and chronically ill women convicted of a federal crime. Brink has covered the crimes at this hospital for many years and offers advice to reporters who are undertaking similar projects. En espanol: #2893
Tags: health care; hospitals; hospital prisons; Bureau of Prisons; Carswell Federal Medical Center
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Wrongful convictions: Reasons and possible safeguards
This tipsheet will help journalists from falling into the trap of convicting an innocent person along with the legal system. Mahoney gives suggestions for making sure eyewitness are accurate, testimonies are truthful and lawyers are doing their jobs.
Tags: Conviction; crime; innocent; guilty; police; false; testimony; trial
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International Terrorism Convictions
This tipsheet contains a spreadsheet of international terrorism convictions in the US during 2003. The tipsheet also contains two articles from the Philadelphia Inquirer, one about 65 New Jersey terrorism cases and one concerning the Department of Justice's inflation of terrorism convictions, along with a docket from a district court case in Massachusetts.
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Convicting the wrong man
This is a story about David Jonathan Quindt, a man who was convicted of a crime he did not commit. This story explains why the law came after David, why he was convicted, and how his innocence was proved.
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Investigating Injustices in Immigration Law
Olsen lists seven trends in immigration that any reporter can tackle including deportation for minor crimes, deportations for old convictions, lifers, deportation of people with citizenship claims, inadequate review, illegal re-entry, the illegal immigrants in jail but not deported.
Tags: immigration; hardships; permanent residents; exile; Amerasians; aliens; immigration; crime
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Investigating a possible wrongful conviction
This handout contains tips to help reporters investigating a possible wrongful conviction. The tipsheet explains what documents to look at and certain things to look for.
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Bernard Baran: The 80s Day Care Panic's First Conviction
This tipsheet includes a summary of the wrongful conviction of Bernard Baran as well as a research report by the U.S. Department of Justice - Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Cases Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial.
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