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Errors of Justice

Author : Brian Forst
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521528825
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (288 download)

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Download or read book Errors of Justice written by Brian Forst and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book, Brian Forst takes a fresh new perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy, examining the prospect of assessing policies based on their impact on errors of justice: the error of failing to bring offenders to justice, on the one hand, and the error of imposing costs on innocent people and excessive costs on offenders, on the other. Noting that we have sophisticated systems for managing errors in statistical inference and quality control processes and no parallel system for managing errors of a more socially costly variety - on matters of guilt and innocence - the author lays the foundation for a common sense approach to the management of errors in the criminal justice system, from policing and prosecution to sentencing and corrections. He examines the sources of error in each sector, the harms they impose on society, and frameworks for analyzing and reducing them.

Justice in Error

Author : Clive Walker
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Justice in Error written by Clive Walker and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the various steps within the criminal justice system which have resulted in the conviction of the innocent, and suggest remedies as to how miscarriages might be avoided in the future. The contributors comprise academics, campaigners and practitioners

Miscarriages of Justice

Author : Clive Walker
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 1854316877
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (543 download)

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Download or read book Miscarriages of Justice written by Clive Walker and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 1999 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The authors examine the various steps within the criminal justice system which have resulted in the conviction of the innocent, and suggest remedies as to how miscarriages might be avoided in the future. The contributors comprise academics, campaigners and practitioners.

When Law Fails

Author : Austin Sarat
Publisher : NYU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814762257
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (622 download)

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Download or read book When Law Fails written by Austin Sarat and published by NYU Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since 1989, there have been over 200 post-conviction DNA exonerations in the United States. On the surface, the release of innocent people from prison could be seen as a victory for the criminal justice system: the wrong person went to jail, but the mistake was fixed and the accused set free. A closer look at miscarriages of justice, however, reveals that such errors are not aberrations but deeply revealing, common features of our legal system. The ten original essays in When Law Fails view wrongful convictions not as random mistakes but as organic outcomes of a misshaped larger system that is rife with faulty eyewitness identifications, false confessions, biased juries, and racial discrimination. Distinguished legal thinkers Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., and Austin Sarat have assembled a stellar group of contributors who try to make sense of justice gone wrong and to answer urgent questions. Are miscarriages of justice systemic or symptomatic, or are they mostly idiosyncratic? What are the broader implications of justice gone awry for the ways we think about law? Are there ways of reconceptualizing legal missteps that are particularly useful or illuminating? These instructive essays both address the questions and point the way toward further discussion. When Law Fails reveals the dramatic consequences as well as the daily realities of breakdowns in the law’s ability to deliver justice swiftly and fairly, and calls on us to look beyond headline-grabbing exonerations to see how failure is embedded in the legal system itself. Once we are able to recognize miscarriages of justice we will be able to begin to fix our broken legal system. Contributors: Douglas A. Berman, Markus D. Dubber, Mary L. Dudziak, Patricia Ewick, Daniel Givelber, Linda Ross Meyer, Charles J. Ogletree, Jr., Austin Sarat, Jonathan Simon, and Robert Weisberg.

When Justice Fails

Author : Robert J. Norris
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781611638561
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (385 download)

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Download or read book When Justice Fails written by Robert J. Norris and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wrongful convictions have become a prominent concern in state and federal systems of justice. As thousands of innocent prisoners have been freed in the United States in the past few decades, social science researchers and legal actors have produced a wealth of new insights about how and why mistakes occur and what can be done to help prevent further injustices. When Justice Fails surveys the field of innocence scholarship to offer an overview of the key research, legal, and policy issues associated with wrongful convictions. Topics include the leading sources of error, the detection and correction of miscarriages of justice, the aftermath of wrongful convictions, and more. The volume includes references to historic and contemporary instances of miscarriages of justice and presents information gleaned from media sources about the cases and related policy issues. The book is ideally suited for use in undergraduate classes which focus on wrongful convictions and the administration of justice. PowerPoint slides are available to professors upon adoption of this book. You can download a sample of the full 139-slide presentation here. If you have adopted the book for a course, contact [email protected] to request the PowerPoint slides. "The learning objectives presented in the beginning of each chapter are accomplished through a variety of ways. Importantly, regardless of a student's background, discussions are presented from so many different angles that the material is tailored to all readers. Each chapter starts with a case study, introduces new concepts, discusses the related law, and concludes with presenting policy reforms. The authors not only present the issues related to wrongful convictions but the potential solutions as well." -- Matthew R. Hassett, UNC-Pembroke "I will continue to frequently open this book and read it to make myself a better police officer and to pass on knowledge to do my part in preventing wrongful convictions." -- Earthen McEachen, Senior Capstone student at Curry College in Boston

The Law's Flaws

Author : Larry Laudan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781848901995
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book The Law's Flaws written by Larry Laudan and published by . This book was released on 2016-08-22 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a book about the law's failure as a system of empirical inquiry. While the US Supreme Court repeatedly says that the aim of a trial is to find out the truth about a crime, there is abundant evidence that many of the rules of evidence and legal procedure are not truth-conducive. Quite the contrary; many are truth-thwarting. Relevant evidence of defendant's guilt is often excluded; reasonable inferences from the available evidence are likewise often excluded. When a defendant elects not to testify, jurors are told to draw no inculpatory inferences from the former's refusal to be questioned. If evidence of prior crimes committed by the defendant is admitted (and often it is excluded), jurors are strictly told to use them only for deciding whether the defendant lied during his testimony and not as evidence of his guilt. Making matters worse, the most important evidence rule of all (saying that defendant can be convicted only if there are no reasonable doubts about his guilt) is monumentally vague; and judges are under firm instruction to decline jurors' frequent requests to explain what a 'reasonable doubt' is. Lastly, this book examines the fact that American courts collect little information about how often they convict the innocent and no information about how often they acquit the guilty. This is tragic because ignorance of the error rates in trials and in plea bargains means that citizens have no grounds for confidence in the judicial system; such a condition of non-transparency should be unacceptable in a democracy. Reform is urgent and this book sketches some of the necessary changes.

Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform

Author : Greg Berman
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1442268484
Total Pages : 167 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (422 download)

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Download or read book Trial and Error in Criminal Justice Reform written by Greg Berman and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2016-03-21 with total page 167 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this revised edition of their concise, readable, yet wide-ranging book, Greg Berman and Aubrey Fox tackle a question students and scholars of law, criminology, and political science constantly face: what mistakes have led to the problems that pervade the criminal justice system in the United States? The reluctance of criminal justice policymakers to talk openly about failure, the authors argue, has stunted the public conversation about crime in this country and stifled new ideas. It has also contributed to our inability to address such problems as chronic offending in low-income neighborhoods, an overreliance on incarceration, the misuse of pretrial detention, and the high rates of recidivism among parolees. Berman and Fox offer students and policymakers an escape from this fate by writing about failure in the criminal justice system. Their goal is to encourage a more forthright dialogue about criminal justice, one that acknowledges that many new initiatives fail and that no one knows for certain how to reduce crime. For the authors, this is not a source of pessimism, but a call to action. This revised edition is updated with a new foreword by Cyrus R. Vance, Jr., and afterword by Greg Berman.

Overturning Wrongful Convictions

Author : Elizabeth A. Murray
Publisher : Twenty-First Century Books
ISBN 13 : 1467763071
Total Pages : 120 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (677 download)

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Download or read book Overturning Wrongful Convictions written by Elizabeth A. Murray and published by Twenty-First Century Books. This book was released on 2015-03-01 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagine being wrongfully convicted of a crime and spending years behind bars. Since 1989 more than 1,400 Americans who experienced this injustice have been exonerated. Readers will examine real accounts and learn about organizations dedicated to righting these wrongs.

Failings of the International Court of Justice

Author : A. Mark Weisburd
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199364079
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book Failings of the International Court of Justice written by A. Mark Weisburd and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2015-11-20 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Failings of the International Court of Justice critically examines the jurisprudence of the International Court of Justice. Even though the legal instrument that establishes the Court provides that its judgments have no formal precedential value, those judgments are treated as authoritative by international lawyers throughout the world. In this book, A. Mark Weisburd argues that the Court's decisions are, in a large minority of cases, poorly reasoned and doubtful as a matter of law, and therefore ought not to be accorded the deference they receive. The book seeks to demonstrate its thesis by a careful review of the Court's errors. It begins with an examination of the law that created and empowered the Court. It then describes the body of law upon which the Court was intended to base its decisions, and the mistakes in the arguments supporting the Court's drawing legal rules from other sources. The book goes on to analyze in detail cases in which the Court has made serious legal errors, first addressing procedural errors, then turning to mistakes in the application of substantive international law. The book closes with a quantitative summing up of the Court's performance, and a tentative explanation for its relatively disappointing record.

Convicting the Innocent; Sixty-five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice

Author : Edwin Montefiore Borchard
Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781015508989
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Convicting the Innocent; Sixty-five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice written by Edwin Montefiore Borchard and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-26 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Trial and Error

Author : Robert Kee
Publisher : Hamish Hamilton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 308 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Trial and Error written by Robert Kee and published by Hamish Hamilton. This book was released on 1986 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Promise of Justice

Author : David Protess
Publisher : Hyperion Books
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Promise of Justice written by David Protess and published by Hyperion Books. This book was released on 1998-08-03 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dramatic true story of how a journalist, a professor, and three students solved a murder and helped free four wrongly convicted men after 18 years in prison.

Miscarriages of justice

Author : Keir Starmer
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 402 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (118 download)

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Download or read book Miscarriages of justice written by Keir Starmer and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 402 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

State Indemnity for Errors of Criminal Justice

Author : Edwin Borchard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book State Indemnity for Errors of Criminal Justice written by Edwin Borchard and published by . This book was released on 1912 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

United States Attorneys' Manual

Author : United States. Department of Justice
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (191 download)

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Download or read book United States Attorneys' Manual written by United States. Department of Justice and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut

Author : Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1286 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Court of Errors of the State of Connecticut written by Connecticut. Supreme Court of Errors and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 1286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Convicting the Innocent; Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice - Scholar's Choice Edition

Author : Edwin Montefiore Borchard
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781296005238
Total Pages : 414 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (52 download)

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Download or read book Convicting the Innocent; Sixty-Five Actual Errors of Criminal Justice - Scholar's Choice Edition written by Edwin Montefiore Borchard and published by . This book was released on 2015-02-13 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.