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.

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• Authors: Brian Forst, Brian (American University Forst, Forst Brian
• Assisted by: Alfred Blumstein (Editor), David P. Farrington (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 10.11.2003
• EAN: 9780521528825
• ISBN: 978-0-521-52882-5
• No. of pages: 272
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Criminolo; Cambridge Studies in Criminology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > Sociological theories; 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