Research Catalog

Title

Understanding miscarriages of justice : law, the media, and the inevitability of crisis / Richard Nobles and David Schiff ; with a foreword by Gunther Teubner.

Author

Nobles, Richard.

Publication

Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

Schiff, David (Law professor)

Description

xvi, 279 pages; 24 cm.

Series Statement

Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice

Uniform Title

Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice

Subject

• Crime and the press > Great Britain
• Mass media and criminal justice > Great Britain
• Law reform > Great Britain
• 86.43 criminal procedure law, criminal law sanctions
• Crime and the press
• Law reform
• Mass media and criminal justice
• Berichterstattung
• Justizirrtum
• Kriminalität
• Massenmedien
• Strafprocessen
• Rechterlijke dwalingen
• Mass media and crime > Great Britain
• Judicial error > Great Britain
• Médias et justice > Grande-Bretagne
• Droit > Réforme > Grande-Bretagne
• Erreur judiciaire > Grande-Bretagne
• JUDICIAL ERROR
• DENIAL OF JUSTICE
• CRIMINAL COURTS
• CRIMINAL JUSTICE
• MASS MEDIA
• PRESS
• UNITED KINGDOM
• Great Britain
• Großbritannien

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.

Contents

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 investigation by the new Criminal Cases Review Commission: the scope for further miscarriages of justice and crisis -- 6. From understanding miscarriage of justice to reform.

ISBN

• 0198298935
• 9780198298939

LCCN

99087786

OCLC

• ocm42745313
• 42745313
• SCSB-1237933

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library