He earned his B.A. in Sociology from UNC-Greensboro and his M.A. and Ph.D. from the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany. He has authored and co-authored several scholarly articles and book chapters about wrongful convictions, including theoretical (Norris & Bonventre, 2013) and methodological (Bonventre, Norris, & West, 2014) issues, state policy responses (Norris, 2012, 2014; Norris, Bonventre, Redlich, & Acker, 2010/2011), and false confessions and guilty pleas (Norris & Redlich, 2012, 2014). He is currently developing a book manuscript on the history of the innocence movement in the United States.