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The Royal Commission on Criminal Justice (1993) (RCCJ) spells out an authoritative vision of criminal justice that fits well with popular sentiment:
All law-abiding citizens have a common interest in a system of criminal justice in which the risks of the innocent being convicted…are as low as human fallibility allows…mistaken verdicts can and do sometimes occur and our task [when such occasions arise] is to recommend changes to our system of criminal justice which will make them less likely in the future…The widely publicised miscarriages of justice which have occurred in recent years have created a need to restore public confidence in the criminal justice system (Royal Commission on Criminal Justice, 1993: 2–6).1
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Naughton, M. (2007). Introduction. In: Rethinking Miscarriages of Justice. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230598966_1
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