Errors of Justice: Nature, Sources and RemediesCambridge University Press, 2004 - 254 páginas In this book, Brian Forst takes a fresh new perspective on the assessment of criminal justice policy, examining the prospect of assessing policies based on their impact on errors of justice: the error of failing to bring offenders to justice, on the one hand, and the error of imposing costs on innocent people and excessive costs on offenders, on the other. Noting that we have sophisticated systems for managing errors in statistical inference and quality control processes and no parallel system for managing errors of a more socially costly variety - on matters of guilt and innocence - the author lays the foundation for a common sense approach to the management of errors in the criminal justice system, from policing and prosecution to sentencing and corrections. He examines the sources of error in each sector, the harms they impose on society, and frameworks for analyzing and reducing them. |
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Contenido
The Problem | 1 |
What Is an Error of Justice? | 3 |
Aim and Overview of the Book | 7 |
Errors of Due Process | 10 |
What Is Due Process? | 11 |
Landmark Due Process Cases | 13 |
The Sources of Due Process Errors and Their Social Significance | 16 |
Managing Due Process Errors | 19 |
Prosecutorial Discretion and Errors of Justice | 114 |
Improved Coordination with Police | 116 |
Errors of Fact Questions of Culpability and Tactical Errors | 118 |
Should the Prosecutor Emphasize Conviction Quality or Quantity? | 120 |
Analyzing Data on Prosecution under a Range of Assumptions about Factual Guilt | 122 |
Analysis by Crime Category | 127 |
Conclusion | 131 |
The Jury | 134 |
Conclusion | 21 |
Errors of Impunity | 22 |
What Is an Error of Impunity? | 23 |
Managing Errors of Impunity | 27 |
Conclusion | 30 |
Frameworks for Analyzing the Incidence of Justice Errors | 31 |
The Problem of Reliability | 32 |
The Problem of Validity | 36 |
Parallels between Errors of Statistical Inference and Errors of Justice | 40 |
Managing Errors in Production and Service Delivery Processes | 41 |
Conclusion | 43 |
Assessing the Cost of Justice Errors | 45 |
What Are the Social Costs of Crime and Justice? | 46 |
Difficulties in Assessing the Social Costs of Crime and Justice | 48 |
Optimal Levels of Interventions Against Crime | 52 |
Initial Estimates | 54 |
Conclusion | 55 |
Standards of Evidence | 57 |
Varying the Parameters | 58 |
Conclusion | 64 |
PoliceInduced Errors | 66 |
Making Sense of Policing Errors | 67 |
Nature and Sources of Justice Errors Associated with the Police | 69 |
Managing Justice Errors Attributable to the Police | 92 |
Balancing Error Management with Other Policing Goals | 106 |
Conclusion | 109 |
Prosecution Policy and Justice Errors | 112 |
Jury Policy Representativeness and Justice Errors | 136 |
How Many Jurors? Must Their Decision be Unanimous? | 140 |
Jury Dynamics | 145 |
Conclusion | 149 |
Sentencing and Corrections | 150 |
Optimum Sanctions under Alternative Frameworks | 152 |
Sources of Excessive Social Costs in Sentencing | 172 |
Who Might Cause Sentences to be Outside the Norm? | 173 |
Should Sanctions be Based on Predictions? | 176 |
Errors in Corrections | 178 |
The Critical Role of Incentives and Systems of Accountability | 180 |
Conclusion | 182 |
Homicide | 184 |
Opportunities for Error in Classification | 185 |
Failures to Bring Homicide Offenders to Justice | 190 |
Excessive Intrusions in Homicide Cases | 197 |
The Death Penalty | 199 |
Remedies and Impediments to the Management of Errors in Homicide Cases | 203 |
Conclusion | 210 |
A Matter of Legitimacy | 212 |
What is Legitimacy? | 213 |
Operationalizing the Notion of Legitimacy | 215 |
Conclusion | 217 |
Bibliography | 221 |
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