Preface |
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Acknowledgments |
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1 The Problem |
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What Is an Error of Justice? |
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3 | (4) |
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Aim and Overview of the Book |
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7 | (3) |
2 Errors of Due Process |
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10 | (1) |
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11 | (2) |
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Landmark Due Process Cases |
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13 | (3) |
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The Sources of Due Process Errors and Their Social Significance |
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16 | (3) |
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Managing Due Process Errors |
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19 | (2) |
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21 | (1) |
3 Errors of Impunity |
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22 | (9) |
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22 | (1) |
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What Is an Error of Impunity? |
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23 | (1) |
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The Sources and Consequences of Errors of Impunity |
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23 | (4) |
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Managing Errors of Impunity |
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27 | (3) |
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30 | (1) |
4 Frameworks for Analyzing the Incidence of Justice Errors |
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31 | (14) |
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31 | (1) |
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Managing Errors of Statistical Inference: The Problem of Reliability |
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32 | (4) |
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Managing Errors of Statistical Inference: The Problem of Validity |
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36 | (4) |
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Parallels between Errors of Statistical Inference and Errors of Justice |
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40 | (1) |
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Managing Errors in Production and Service Delivery Processes |
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41 | (2) |
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43 | (2) |
5 Assessing the Cost of Justice Errors |
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45 | (12) |
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45 | (1) |
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What Are the Social Costs of Crime and Justice? |
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46 | (2) |
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Difficulties in Assessing the Social Costs of Crime and Justice |
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48 | (4) |
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Optimal Levels of Interventions Against Crime |
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52 | (2) |
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54 | (1) |
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55 | (2) |
6 Standards of Evidence |
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57 | (9) |
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57 | (1) |
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58 | (6) |
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64 | (2) |
7 Police-Induced Errors |
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66 | (1) |
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Making Sense of Policing Errors |
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67 | (2) |
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Nature and Sources of Justice Errors Associated with the Police |
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69 | (23) |
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Managing Justice Errors Attributable to the Police |
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Balancing Error Management with Other Policing Goals |
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106 | (3) |
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109 | (3) |
8 Prosecution Policy and Justice Errors |
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112 | (22) |
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112 | (2) |
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Prosecutorial Discretion and Errors of Justice |
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114 | (2) |
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Improved Coordination with Police |
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116 | (2) |
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Errors of Fact, Questions of Culpability, and Tactical Errors |
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118 | (2) |
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Should the Prosecutor Emphasize Conviction Quality or Quantity? |
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120 | (2) |
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Analyzing Data on Prosecution under a Range of Assumptions about Factual Guilt |
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122 | (5) |
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Analysis by Crime Category |
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127 | (4) |
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131 | (3) |
9 The Jury |
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134 | (16) |
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134 | (2) |
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Jury Policy, Representativeness, and Justice Errors |
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136 | (4) |
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How Many Jurors? Must Their Decision be Unanimous? |
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140 | (5) |
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145 | (4) |
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149 | (1) |
10 Sentencing and Corrections |
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150 | (34) |
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150 | (2) |
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Optimum Sanctions under Alternative Frameworks |
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152 | (20) |
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Sources of Excessive Social Costs in Sentencing |
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172 | (1) |
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Who Might Cause Sentences to be Outside the Norm? |
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173 | (3) |
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Should Sanctions be Based on Predictions? |
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176 | (2) |
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178 | (2) |
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The Critical Role of Incentives and Systems of Accountability |
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180 | (2) |
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182 | (2) |
11 Homicide |
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184 | (28) |
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184 | (1) |
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Basics about Homicide: Opportunities for Error in Classification |
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185 | (5) |
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Failures to Bring Homicide Offenders to Justice |
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190 | (7) |
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Excessive Intrusions in Homicide Cases |
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197 | (2) |
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199 | (4) |
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Remedies and Impediments to the Management of Errors in Homicide Cases |
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203 | (7) |
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210 | (2) |
12 A Matter of Legitimacy |
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212 | (9) |
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212 | (1) |
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213 | (2) |
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Operationalizing the Notion of Legitimacy |
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215 | (2) |
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217 | (4) |
Bibliography |
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Index |
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