Citizen attitudes toward errors in criminal justice: implications of the declining acceptance of Blackstone's ratio

The “Blackstone ratio,” positing that “it is better that ten guilty individuals escape, than that one innocent suffer,” is a well-known principle of criminal justice. The methods of implementing the legal policy of maximum possible certainty of guilt congruent with Blackstone's ratio consists o...

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Authors: Xiong, Moulin (Author) ; Greenleaf, Richard G. (Author) ; Goldschmidt, Jona 1950- (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
Published: 2017
In: International journal of law, crime and justice
Year: 2017, Volume: 48, Pages: 14-26
Online Access: Volltext (Resolving-System)
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Keywords:
Blackstone's ratio
Wrongful conviction
Judicial error
Due process
Innocence
Justizirrtum
Fehlurteil
Ordentliches Gerichtsverfahren
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