Understanding Miscarriages of Justice: Law, the Media, and the Inevitability of Crisis

by Richard Nobles, David Schiff, Gunther Teubner (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780198298939
Publisher:	Oxford University Press
Publication date:	06/01/2000
Series:	Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	9.30(w) x 6.30(h) x 1.00(d)

Table of Contents

1. Introduction2. Problematizing miscarriage of justice3. Remedying miscarriages of justice: the history of the Court of Criminal Appeal4. Into and out of crisis: a recent history of media reporting on miscarriages of justice5. Scientific evidence and the new Criminal Cases Review Commission: the scope for further miscarriages of justice and crisis6. From understanding miscarriage of justice to reformBibliographyIndex