From the Griffith Criminology Institute, this is A Matter of Crime podcast.
A Matter of Crime takes you behind the headlines and gets you a seat beside Australia's leading criminologists and legal scholars. In this episode, wrongful convictions. It's the theme of many thriller movies and television shows, but is it a problem in Australia? Dr Rachel Dioso-Villa is one of Australia's leading researchers in this field, and a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith University School of Criminology and Criminal Justice. In this episode of A Matter of Crime, Rachel dispels some of the myths, and tells us what is being done about this international problem and why less is known about its prevalence in Australia.