The Elementary Epistemic Arithmetic of Criminal Justice

The Elementary Epistemic Arithmetic of Criminal Justice

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...

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