Understanding Public Tolerance for Justice System Error
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2015
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McClure, David William
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A growing body of research continues to examine the prevalence of wrongful convictions (where the criminal justice system finds a truly innocent person to be guilty). A subset of that research has focused on perceptions of wrongful convictions, but very little has been done to understand perceptions of wrongful convictions as they relate to the opposite form of criminal justice system error: wrongful releases (where the criminal justice system finds a truly guilty person to be not guilty).
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Criminology, Law, Blackstone Ratio, Justice System Error, Wrongful conviction