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Valena Elizabeth Beety

Social Sciences · Indiana University

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Mid career · publishing since 2008
Criminal Law and EvidenceLegal Systems and Judicial ProcessesJury Decision Making ProcessesCriminal Justice and Corrections AnalysisDeception detection and forensic psychology

Publications

50

Citations

41

Est. group size

—

Recurring co-author estimate

Active years

18

Publishing since 2008

Research summary
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This researcher studies wrongful convictions and the criminal justice system through a legal lens, examining how forensic evidence, eyewitness identification, and courtroom procedures can lead to unjust outcomes. Their work also explores how factors like gender, sexual identity, and disability shape who gets wrongly convicted, and it addresses policy issues such as compensation for police violence victims and drug-related prosecutions. Much of the work focuses on legal reforms to correct these problems.

Wrongful convictions and innocenceForensic evidence and its reliabilityCriminal justice reform and legal procedureIdentity, gender, and disability in the justice systemDrug policy and criminalization

Publication activity has been relatively steady over the past decade, peaking around 2020 and averaging about two publications per year in recent years.

Generated by claude-opus-4-8 from public bibliographic data · Jul 9, 2026

In context
Among 947 mid career Social Sciences PIs within our index
Citations: 41cohort median 312
h-index: 3cohort median 8
Publications / year (recent): 2.2cohort median 2.2

Typically publishes in teams of ~1 · 76% small-team papers (≤3 authors) · across 8 venues

Publication cadence
Publications per year over the last 10 years — averaging 2.2/year recently
2017: 2 publications172018: 3 publications182019: 4 publications192020: 6 publications6202021: 1 publication212022: 3 publications222023: 4 publications232024: 1 publication242025: 3 publications2526
Recent publications
Publishes in
  • SSRN Electronic Journal×15
  • The Research Repository @ WVU (West Virginia University)×4
  • The Knowledge Bank (The Ohio State University)×2
  • The Wrongful Conviction Law Review×2
  • Columbia Journal of Gender and Law×1
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This profile was generated automatically from public scholarly data (OpenAlex). Group size and activity levels are estimates derived from co-authorship patterns.

Last updated Jul 27, 2026.

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