Miscarriages of Justice: Causes, Consequences and Remedies - Paperback

by Sam Poyser (Author), Angus Nurse (Author), Rebecca Milne (Author)

It is crucial for criminal justice practitioners to understand miscarriages of justice. This text provides an up-to-date and comprehensive analysis of miscarriages of justice, highlighting difficulties in defining them, examining their dimensions, forms, scale and impact and exploring key cases and their causes.

Author Biography

Dr. Sam Poyser is Senior Lecturer in Criminology, Criminal Justice and Policing at York St John University. Her primary area of research is miscarriages of justice and the learning opportunities they present for criminal investigators. More generally, she has conducted research into victims' experiences of injustice and has published extensively in the areas of policing, investigation and criminal justice. Dr Angus Nurse is Associate Professor, Environmental Justice at Middlesex University School of Law. His main research interests are in access to justice, critical criminal justice, animal and human rights law and green criminology and he has published extensively in these fields. Dr Rebecca Milne is a Professor of Forensic Psychology and Founder of the Centre of Forensic Interviewing at the Institute of Criminal Justice Studies, University of Portsmouth. She is also a chartered forensic psychologist, Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. Rebecca has published widely in the fields of criminal investigation, interviewing and evidence.