The Injustice of Guilty Pleas: Dr Rebecca Helm
Dr Rebecca Helm is the Director of the University of Exeter Evidence Based Justice Lab. Her research interest for the past decade has been on why people plead guilty in England and Wales and the USA. Nobody knows more about the injustices that the pressure to plead guilty can lead to.
Rebecca has created The Evidence Based Justice Lab (https://evidencebasedjustice.exeter.a...) to collate and study the patterns of behaviour in the justice system, in particular the patterns of miscarriage of justice in the UK.
Rebecca is a Senior Lecturer in Law at Exeter University, a Supervising Solicitor in the Law Clinic, and a UK Research and Innovation Fellow. She has a PhD in Law and Developmental Psychology and a Masters in Developmental Psychology from Cornell University, a Masters in Law from Cornell University Law School, and a BA in Jurisprudence from the University of Oxford. She is a qualified solicitor in England and Wales and Attorney in New York state, USA.