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Reasonable Doubt
by Xanthé Mallett
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Pub Date
Dec 01 2020
| Archive Date
Jun 30 2020
Description
We all put our faith in the criminal justice system. We trust the professionals: the police, the lawyers, the judges, the expert witnesses. But what happens when the process lets us down and the wrong person ends up in jail? Henry Keogh spent almost twenty years locked away for a murder that never even happened. Khalid Baker was imprisoned for the death of a man his best friend has openly admitted to causing. And the exposure of 'Lawyer X' Nicola Gobbo's double-dealing could lead to some of Australia's most notorious convictions being overturned. Forensic scientist Xanthé Mallett is used to dealing with the darker side of humanity. Now she's turning her skills and insight to miscarriages of justice and cases of Australians who have been wrongfully convicted. Exposing false confessions, polices biases, misplaced evidence and dodgy science, Reasonable Doubt is an expert's account of the murky underbelly of our justice system - and the way it affects us all.
We all put our faith in the criminal justice system. We trust the professionals: the police, the lawyers, the judges, the expert witnesses. But what happens when the process lets us down and the...
Description
We all put our faith in the criminal justice system. We trust the professionals: the police, the lawyers, the judges, the expert witnesses. But what happens when the process lets us down and the wrong person ends up in jail? Henry Keogh spent almost twenty years locked away for a murder that never even happened. Khalid Baker was imprisoned for the death of a man his best friend has openly admitted to causing. And the exposure of 'Lawyer X' Nicola Gobbo's double-dealing could lead to some of Australia's most notorious convictions being overturned. Forensic scientist Xanthé Mallett is used to dealing with the darker side of humanity. Now she's turning her skills and insight to miscarriages of justice and cases of Australians who have been wrongfully convicted. Exposing false confessions, polices biases, misplaced evidence and dodgy science, Reasonable Doubt is an expert's account of the murky underbelly of our justice system - and the way it affects us all.
Marketing Plan
Lost lives, justice delayed, criminals walking free: exposing Australia's worst wrongful convictions.
Lost lives, justice delayed, criminals walking free: exposing Australia's worst wrongful convictions.
Available Editions
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| ISBN |
9781760784843 |
| PRICE |
$24.95 (USD)
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9781760784843 |
| PRICE |
$24.95 (USD)
|
Average rating from 2 members
Featured Reviews
Educator 505105
I've enjoyed all Mallett's work, and this is also excellent. Mallett's focus on Australian cases means that her case studies tend to be those that are not particularly well-known or cultural touchstones, and they open themselves up for fresh discussion and forensic analysis. Her methodology in choosing cases that illustrate faults and ambiguities in the criminal justice system as well as in past forensic analysis has not been to pluck out the sensational, but to pursue those that create a wider picture of the limits of and miscarriages of justice in Australia. Not all these cases are at all 'they clearly got it wrong': the ambiguities around some clearly highlight the places where forensics isn't enough to prove guilt or innocence under the law, or where it has been pushed further than it ought. As a result, this is nuanced and interesting, rather than pulpy and sensational.
Featured Reviews
Educator 505105
I've enjoyed all Mallett's work, and this is also excellent. Mallett's focus on Australian cases means that her case studies tend to be those that are not particularly well-known or cultural touchstones, and they open themselves up for fresh discussion and forensic analysis. Her methodology in choosing cases that illustrate faults and ambiguities in the criminal justice system as well as in past forensic analysis has not been to pluck out the sensational, but to pursue those that create a wider picture of the limits of and miscarriages of justice in Australia. Not all these cases are at all 'they clearly got it wrong': the ambiguities around some clearly highlight the places where forensics isn't enough to prove guilt or innocence under the law, or where it has been pushed further than it ought. As a result, this is nuanced and interesting, rather than pulpy and sensational.
