Judicial error

URI(s)
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85070946
- info:lc/authorities/sh85070946
- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/sh85070946#concept
Instance Of
Scheme Membership(s)
- Library of Congress Subject Headings
Collection Membership(s)
Variants
- Conviction of the innocent
- Convictions, Erroneous
- Convictions, Mistaken
- Convictions, Wrongful
- Criminal justice, Errors of
- Erroneous convictions
- Errors of criminal justice
- Innocent, Conviction of the
- Justice, Miscarriage of
- Miscarriage of justice
- Mistaken convictions
- Wrongful convictions
Broader Terms
Narrower Terms
- Compensation for judicial error
Closely Matching Concepts from Other Schemes
- http://d-nb.info/gnd/4162948-6
Sources
- found: Radelet, M.L. In spite of innocence : erroneous convictions in capital cases, 1992: p. 10 (wrongful convictions)
- found: Brandon, R. Wrongful imprisonment : mistaken convictions and their consequences, 1973.
- found: Huff, C.R. Convicted but innocent : wrongful conviction and public policy, 1996.
- found: Borchard, E.M. Convicting the innocent, 1970.
Change Notes
- 1986-02-11: new
- 1998-09-25: revised

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