| Understanding Miscarriages of Justice: Law, the Media, and the Inevitability of Crisis Contributor(s): Nobles, Richard (Author), Schiff, David (Author), Teubner, Gunther (Foreword by) |
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ISBN: 0198298935 ISBN-13: 9780198298939 Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA OUR PRICE: $180.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: June 2000 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Law | Criminal Law - General |
| Dewey: 345.41 |
| LCCN: 99087786 |
| Series: Oxford Monographs on Criminal Law and Justice |
| Physical Information: 0.69" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.30 lbs) 296 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |
