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Overview

Samuel R. Gross is affiliated with the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on topics within social sciences, particularly in the areas of law and sociology and political science.

The main fields of study for Samuel R. Gross include:

  • Social Sciences

They have contributed notably to subfields such as:

  • Law
  • Sociology and Political Science

The primary topics covered in their work are:

  • Criminal Law and Evidence
  • Legal Rights and Human Rights
  • Law, Rights, and Freedoms

Samuel R. Gross has published several papers, with a focus on criminal justice and legal processes. Noteworthy recent publications include:

  • Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States, 2022, published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Government Misconduct and Convicting the Innocent, The Role of Prosecutors, Police and Other Law Enforcement, 2020, published in SSRN Electronic Journal

The SSRN Electronic Journal serves as a frequent venue for their work, where they have at least two publications.

Collaborations are an active part of Samuel R. Gross's research process. Frequent co-authors include:

  • Maurice Possley
  • K Stephens
  • Ken Otterbourg
  • Jessica Paredes
  • Barbara O'Brien

Best Publications

  • Evolution of genes and genomes on the Drosophila phylogeny.

    Andrew G. Clark;Michael B. Eisen;Michael B. Eisen;Douglas R. Smith;Casey M. Bergman

  • Exonerations in the United States 1989 through 2003

    Samuel R. Gross;Kristen Jacoby;Daniel J. Matheson;Nicholas Montgomery

  • Hardening of the Attitudes: Americans' Views on the Death Penalty

    Phoebe C. Ellsworth;Samuel R. Gross

  • Getting to no: a study of settlement negotiations and the selection of cases for trial.

    Samuel R. Gross;Kent D. Syverud

  • Patterns of Death: An Analysis of Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing and Homicide Victimization

    Samuel R. Gross;Robert Mauro

  • Racial Profiling under Attack

    Samuel R. Gross;Debra Livingston

  • Road Work: Racial Profiling and Drug Interdiction on the Highway

    Samuel R. Gross;Katherine Y. Barnes

  • Death and Discrimination: Racial Disparities in Capital Sentencing

    Samuel R. Gross;Robert Mauro

  • Frequency and Predictors of False Conviction: Why We Know So Little, and New Data on Capital Cases

    Samuel R. Gross;Barbara O'Brien

  • Rate of false conviction of criminal defendants who are sentenced to death

    Samuel R. Gross;Barbara O’Brien;Chen Hu;Edward H. Kennedy

  • Update: American Public Opinion on the Death Penalty-It’s Getting Personal

    Samuel R. Gross

  • Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012

    S.R. Gross;M. Schaffer

  • The American Advantage: The Value of Inefficient Litigation

    Samuel R. Gross

  • Loss of Innocence: Eyewitness Identification and Proof of Guilt

    Samuel R. Gross

  • Lost Lives: Miscarriages of Justice in Capital Cases

    Samuel R. Gross

  • Deterministic matrices matching the compressed sensing phase transitions of Gaussian random matrices

    Hatef Monajemi;Sina Jafarpour;Matan Gavish;Stat

  • Convicting the Innocent

    Samuel R. Gross

  • Race and Wrongful Convictions in the United States

    Samuel R. Gross;Maurice Possley;Klara Stephens

  • Expert Information and Expert Evidence: A Preliminary Taxonomy

    Samuel R. Gross;Jennifer L. Mnookin

  • Don't Try: Civil Jury Verdicts in a System Geared to Settlement

    Samuel R. Gross;Kent D. Syverud

  • Determining the Neutrality of Death-Qualified Juries Judicial Appraisal of Empirical Data*

    Samuel R. Gross

  • Exonerations in the United States, 1989-2012: Report by the National Registry of Exonerations

    Samuel R. Gross;Michael Shaffer

  • Beyond Repair?: America's Death Penalty

    Stephen P. Garvey;Neal Devins;Mark A. Graber;Samuel R. Gross

  • Second Thoughts: Americans’ Views on the Death Penalty at the Turn of the Century

    Samuel R. Gross;Phoebe C. Ellsworth

  • The Romance of Revenge: Capital Punishment in America

    Samuel R. Gross

  • What We Think, What We Know and What We Think We Know About False Convictions

    Samuel R. Gross

  • How Many False Convictions are There? How Many Exonerations are There?

    Samuel Gross

Frequent Co-Authors

Phoebe C. Ellsworth
Phoebe C. Ellsworth University of Michigan–Ann Arbor
Benjamin S. Wilfond
Benjamin S. Wilfond University of Washington
Jakob Skou Pedersen
Jakob Skou Pedersen Aarhus University
Gary H. Karpen
Gary H. Karpen University of California, Berkeley
Sam Griffiths-Jones
Sam Griffiths-Jones University of Manchester
Alexander Stark
Alexander Stark Research Institute of Molecular Pathology
Ruiqiang Li
Ruiqiang Li Novogene (China)
Gane Ka-Shu Wong
Gane Ka-Shu Wong University of Alberta
Michael B. Eisen
Michael B. Eisen University of California, Berkeley

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