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CONVICTION: LAW, THE STATE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE

01 January 1991

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CONVICTION: LAW, THE STATE AND THE CONSTRUCTION OF JUSTICE
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D J McBarnet Social Science Research Council
Macmillan/SSRC, 1981 (1983 reprinting) 182pp RB35016

Demonstrates from courtroom observations how legal rights
are used to build up an overwhelming rate of successful
prosecutions. Concludes that the legal system, far
from favouring the accused, is endemically oriented towards
conviction. Raises implications for the policy debate
on criminal procedure and sociological approaches to
criminal justice

United Kingdom, court, civil liberty, crime, police, evidence,
trial, defence

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