Errors of Justice - Nature, Sources and Remedies

Klappentext Forst takes a fresh perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy. Zusammenfassung A fresh 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 and the error of imposing costs on innocent people and excessive costs on offenders. Inhaltsverzeichnis Preface; 1. The problem; 2. Errors of due process; 3. Errors of impunity; 4. Frameworks for analyzing the incidence of justice errors; 5. Assessing the cost of justice errors; 6. Standards of evidence; 7. Police-induced errors; 8. Prosecution policy and justice errors; 9. The jury; 10. Sentencing and corrections; 11. Homicide; 12. A matter of legitimacy; Bibliography.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Brian Forst, Brian (American University Forst, Forst Brian
• Mitarbeit: Alfred Blumstein (Herausgeber), David P. Farrington (Herausgeber)
• Verlag: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 10.11.2003
• EAN: 9780521528825
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52882-5
• Seiten: 272
• Serien: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Themen: Sozialwissenschaften, Recht,Wirtschaft > Soziologie > Soziologische Theorien; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, LAW / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, Sociology & anthropology, Sociology and anthropology, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law