Conditions under which random acquittal is better than acquitting the guilty to avoid convicting the innocent

One common approach to managing the inevitable erroneous convictions and erroneous acquittals produced by criminal justice systems is to employ various means (rules and procedures) to decrease the number of erroneous convictions at the expense of increasing, even many more times, the number of erron...

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Main Author: Smith, Graham P., 1967-
Format: Others
Language:English
Published: 2009
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2152/ETD-UT-2009-05-40