Abstract
Every criminal case has only one of four possible outcomes. Wrongful convictions deal with one of these options: when the “legal truth” concludes that one has committed a crime, however the “empirical truth” is otherwise (C); whereas a wrongful acquittal occurs when a guilty person is found innocent (B). As conceptualised in Figure 0.1, boxes A and D represent the preferred outcomes of a criminal trial: the innocent are exonerated, and those responsible are found guilty. 1 Figure 0.1 Four possible outcomes in a criminal case. A matrix with four quadrants shows the legal truth horizontally, marked as Guilty and Innocent from left to right, and the emotional truth vertically, marked as Guilty and Innocent from top to bottom. Guilty represents with A, Guilty and Innocent as B, Innocent and Guilty as C, and Innocent as D. https://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" orientation="portrait" position="float" xlink:href="https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781003014423/0526b367-5360-4105-a4bb-4a131123295f/content/fig_1.tif"/>.
| Original language | English |
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| Title of host publication | Wrongful Convictions and the Criminalization of Innocence |
| Subtitle of host publication | International Perspectives on Contributing Factors, Models of Exoneration and Case Studies |
| Publisher | Taylor and Francis |
| Pages | 1-14 |
| Number of pages | 14 |
| ISBN (Electronic) | 9781040345108 |
| ISBN (Print) | 9780367439774 |
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| State | Published - 1 Jan 2025 |
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