Understanding Miscarriages of Justice - Law, the Media and the Inevitability of a Crisis

Zusatztext ... can be recommended without hesitation as required reading on the subject. Informationen zum Autor Richard Nobles and David Schiff are both Senior Lecturers at LSE Klappentext High profile miscarriages of justice have become focus of much recent writing on criminal justice. Such literature ignores an important paradox: when justice is contested and uncertain, how can we speak meaningfully of miscarriage of justice? This book addresses this question and finds an answer to it in the relationship between the legal construction of criminal justice and the reporting of it in the media. Zusammenfassung When justice is contested and uncertain, how can miscarriage of justice be spoken of meaningfully? This book addresses this question, and finds an answer to it in the relationship between the legal construction of criminal justice, most notably that of trials and appeals, and the reporting of these in the media. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1: Introduction 2: Problematizing miscarriage of justice 3: Remedying miscarriages of justice: the history of the Court of Criminal Appeal 4: Into and out of crisis: a recent history of media reporting on miscarriages of justice 5: Scientific evidence and the new Criminal Cases Review Commission: the scope for further miscarriages of justice and crisis 6: From understanding miscarriage of justice to reform Bibliography Index

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• Authors: Richard Nobles, Richard (Senior Lecturer in Law Nobles, Richard Schiff Nobles, David Schiff
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 23.03.2000
• EAN: 9780198298939
• ISBN: 978-0-19-829893-9
• No. of pages: 296
• Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal; Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice; Oxford Monographs on Criminal
• Subjects: Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society; Social sciences, law, business > Law > International law, foreign law