Watchdogs of the wrongly convicted : the role of the media in revealing miscarriages of justice

Miscarriages of justice occur far more frequently than we dare to believe (Yant, 1991; Naughton, 2009) and quite simply, ruin people’s lives. Many of these injustices have been revealed and ultimately rectified as a result of work by journalists who have dedicated energy and resources to investigati...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Poyser, Samantha
Other Authors: Milne, Rebecca Jane ; Savage, Stephen Peter
Published: University of Portsmouth 2012
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Online Access:http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.574878