Synopses & Reviews
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.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [263]-273) and index.
Table of 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 the new Criminal Cases Review Commission: the scope for further miscarriages of justice and crisis
6. From understanding miscarriage of justice to reform
Bibliography
Index