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2 results foundAuthor: Hollway, John Title: A Systems Approach to Error Reduction in Criminal Justice Summary: How can the criminal justice system reduce errors and improve the integrity of criminal convictions? This question framed a November, 2013 Dialogue organized by the Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice at the University of Pennsylvania Law School. Prosecutors, defense attorneys, federal and local law enforcement and judges, and researchers and academics assembled for a day-long discussion about enhancing the integrity of the criminal justice system, including the use of a collaborative "systems approach" to quality improvement. The systems approach has reduced errors in a variety of complex, high-risk industries, including health care, aviation, and manufacturing, among others. Such an approach targets the system for improvement rather than specific individuals within the system. The systems approach seeks to provide an environment that maximizes each participant's ability to act effectively and efficiently. It prizes a non-punitive culture of disclosure to identify errors, gathers and applies data to understand the causes of the error, and tests systems changes to prevent future errors. This focus on system improvement, rather than on individual punishment or blame, unites all participants around objective criteria and allows each participant to do his or her job more efficiently, accurately and safely. The Quattrone Center seeks to apply this systems approach to criminal justice through a series of data-driven collaborations among researchers and practitioners. Its November Dialogue sought to explore the enthusiasm for this approach among practitioners and researchers, and to inform the future strategic direction of the Center. This document highlights the main themes and issues raised during the Dialogue, particularly methods that the Quattrone Center can use to help identify sources of error in the investigation, prosecution, and adjudication of crime, and ultimately contribute to the elimination of these errors. Details: Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Law School - Quattrone Center for the Fair Administration of Justice, 2014. 33p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed July 23, 2016 at: http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1975&context=faculty_scholarship Year: 2014 Country: United States URL: http://scholarship.law.upenn.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1975&context=faculty_scholarship Shelf Number: 139811 Keywords: False Convictions Prosecutions Wrongful Convictions |
Author: Sangero, Boaz Title: Safety from False Convictions Summary: This book provides readers with an exploration of ways to reduce the rate of false convictions in the criminal justice system. The criminal justice system should be seen as a Safety-Critical System, specifically a system that deals with matters of life and death, where any error is likely to cause grave harm to both the individual and society. Implementing safety in criminal law is necessary, both morally and economically. Incorporating into the criminal justice system a modern safety theory that is commonly accepted in other areas, such as space, aviation, engineering, and transportation, is an idea that was developed jointly by myself and Dr. Mordechai Halpert and presented mainly in the coauthored article "A Safety Doctrine for the Criminal Justice System." This is the starting point of the book. The book expands the preliminary proposition and engages in the application of the modern safety theory and methods in the criminal justice system. Thus, for example, the book demonstrates how the fundamentally important Identify-Analyze-Control method can and should be implemented in the system, using Nancy Leveson's STAMP's model ("System-Theoretic Accident Model and Processes"). This is the first book that proposes a general theory of safety for the criminal justice system. It provides specific safety rules for certain types of criminal evidence and criminal law procedures. Details: Ramat Gan, Israel: The Author, 2016. 256p. Source: Internet Resource: Accessed August 29, 2016 at: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2816292 Year: 2016 Country: International URL: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=2816292 Shelf Number: 140077 Keywords: Criminal LawEyewitness TestimonyFalse ConvictionsInnocencePlea BargainingWrongful Conviction |