Wednesday, May 23, 2012

Better the guilty should go free, rather than the innocent suffer?

Wrongful convictions can be reduced through science, but tradeoffs exist 
Many of the wrongful convictions identified in a report this week hinged on a misidentified culprit — and a new report in a top journal on psychological science reveals the paradox of reforms in eyewitness identification procedure.


In our efforts to make sure that good guys don't get locked up, could we let more bad guys go?