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Book Review: Police Patrol Techniques and Tactics

Book Review: Police Patrol Techniques and Tactics BOOK REVIEWS relative individual and collective merits of particular evidence in establishing the various accuseds' guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Essentially it is Professor Hawkins thesis that alternative verdicts could reasonably have been reached. As the author readily argues, if an additional alternative verdict of "not proven" was available to Australian juries, as it is to Scottish juries, in fact some of the accuseds examined would perhaps have been found "not proven" rather than guilty of the crimes alleged. In this book, Professor Hawkins indicts the media in its role of sensationalizing alleged crimes and thereby creating a public "image" of persons under suspicion potentially prejudicial to the eventual outcome of the jury trial. The Ryan case is presented in this light. Similarly the potentially dangerous and prejudicial effect of rumour and "small town talk" on the minds of jurors is reflected in the author's examination of the cases of Ratten and Van Beelen. While these issues are undoubtedly somewhat elemental to those "expert" in matters of criminal justice, this very readable book provides a valuable forum for these concepts to be publicized to the lay public and hopefully thereby, generating debate. How these problems are solved does not fail http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

Book Review: Police Patrol Techniques and Tactics

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SAGE
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Copyright © by SAGE Publications
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0004-8658
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1837-9273
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10.1177/000486587901200213
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BOOK REVIEWS relative individual and collective merits of particular evidence in establishing the various accuseds' guilt beyond reasonable doubt. Essentially it is Professor Hawkins thesis that alternative verdicts could reasonably have been reached. As the author readily argues, if an additional alternative verdict of "not proven" was available to Australian juries, as it is to Scottish juries, in fact some of the accuseds examined would perhaps have been found "not proven" rather than guilty of the crimes alleged. In this book, Professor Hawkins indicts the media in its role of sensationalizing alleged crimes and thereby creating a public "image" of persons under suspicion potentially prejudicial to the eventual outcome of the jury trial. The Ryan case is presented in this light. Similarly the potentially dangerous and prejudicial effect of rumour and "small town talk" on the minds of jurors is reflected in the author's examination of the cases of Ratten and Van Beelen. While these issues are undoubtedly somewhat elemental to those "expert" in matters of criminal justice, this very readable book provides a valuable forum for these concepts to be publicized to the lay public and hopefully thereby, generating debate. How these problems are solved does not fail

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology – SAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1979

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