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Justice in-between : a study of intermediate criminal verdicts /

"Most contemporary criminal justice systems adopt a 'binary' system of verdicts. In a binary system, there is a single evidential threshold, or standard of proof. If the standard is met, the verdict is 'guilty', the defendant is convicted, and punishment is permitted. If the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Picinali, Federico (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022.
Edition:First edition.
Series:Oxford monographs on criminal law and criminal justice.
Subjects:
Verdicts > Great Britain.
Verdicts.
Judgments, Criminal.
Verdicts > Grande-Bretagne.
Jugements criminels.
LAW.
Sentencing.
Criminal Procedure.
Judgments, Criminal
Verdicts
Great Britain
Laws of specific jurisdictions & specific areas of law.
Law.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • Intermediate verdicts are not a fanciful construct
  • 2. The presumption of innocence: a decisive object to intermediate verdicts? 3. Acquittal vs conviction: we can all be expected - value maximisers in this choice
  • 4. The decision-theoretic case for intermediate criminal verdicts
  • 5. A battery of objections
  • 6. Conclusion.