Richard Nobles, David Schiff

Understanding Miscarriages of Justice

Law, the Media, and the Inevitability of Crisis

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Periodically, however, miscarriages are seen not as exceptional, but widespread and normal. At such moments, the legitimacy of the criminal justice process is called into question in the media. These moments are constructed in the media as a crisis of public confidence in criminal justice. With the mass media's vivid interest in crime and punishment and their relentless reconstruction of relevant facts, the courts fact-finding monopoly is fundamentally contested. While this happens in all phases of a criminal process, the contest becomes particularly dramatic when after a criminal conviction the mass media continue their investigation and discover, according to their criteria of truth, a miscarriage of justice. But there is no set of common criteria that would allow for the design of rational procedures to end the contest. There is no forum, no procedure, and no set of criteria that would make possible a common search for truth.

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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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 296
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 2000
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 594g
• ISBN-13: 9780198298939
• ISBN-10: 0198298935
• Artikelnr.: 21835613

Autorenporträt

Richard Nobles and David Schiff are both Senior Lecturers at LSE

Inhaltsangabe

* 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