The Elementary Epistemic Arithmetic of Criminal Justice
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This paper propounds the following theses: 1). that the traditional focus on the Blackstone ratio of errors as a device for setting the criminal standard of proof is ill-conceived, 2). that the preoccupation with the rate of false convictions in criminal trials is myopic, and 3). that the key ratio of interest, in judging the political morality of a system of criminal justice, involves the relation between the risk that an innocent person runs of being falsely convicted of a serious crime and the risk of being criminally victimized by someone who was falsely acquitted.
2002 ◽
Vol 75
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pp. 330-339
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2018 ◽
Vol 29
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pp. 221-248
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2010 ◽
Vol 4
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pp. 201-220
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