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Book Review: Protecting the Protectors

Book Review: Protecting the Protectors BOOK REVIEWS 123 with refusals to allow a "victim's friend" to be present during police questioning, have been made. These give rise to legitimate concern on the part of those interested in protecting the civil liberties of all who may be subject to criminal investigation. (See "Criminal Investigation and the Rights of Victims of Crime" (1979) 14 University of Western Australia Law Review.) It is further disappointing that there is little critical analysis of the rules and laws governing police conduct and admissibility of evidence in general. Even if the aim is simply to convey what the law is, that aim can be advanced by reference to what is wrong with the law, how inadequate and/or unclear it is, and what the law should be. Comment on the lack of discussion in appeal courts, at least (until the recent decision of Mr Justice Murphy in Cleland (1982), unfortunately decided too late to be included in The Law of Criminal Investigation), onthe issue of "verballing"­ that is, the exclusion of "confessions" never made, in contradistinction to those made after police threats or promises - would have added a useful and contemporary dimension. Finally, publisher's blurbs are not always accurate. The http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Australian & New Zealand Journal of Criminology SAGE

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Publisher
SAGE
Copyright
© The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology and Authors, 1984
ISSN
0004-8658
eISSN
1837-9273
DOI
10.1177/000486588401700211
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Abstract

BOOK REVIEWS 123 with refusals to allow a "victim's friend" to be present during police questioning, have been made. These give rise to legitimate concern on the part of those interested in protecting the civil liberties of all who may be subject to criminal investigation. (See "Criminal Investigation and the Rights of Victims of Crime" (1979) 14 University of Western Australia Law Review.) It is further disappointing that there is little critical analysis of the rules and laws governing police conduct and admissibility of evidence in general. Even if the aim is simply to convey what the law is, that aim can be advanced by reference to what is wrong with the law, how inadequate and/or unclear it is, and what the law should be. Comment on the lack of discussion in appeal courts, at least (until the recent decision of Mr Justice Murphy in Cleland (1982), unfortunately decided too late to be included in The Law of Criminal Investigation), onthe issue of "verballing"­ that is, the exclusion of "confessions" never made, in contradistinction to those made after police threats or promises - would have added a useful and contemporary dimension. Finally, publisher's blurbs are not always accurate. The

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Australian & New Zealand Journal of CriminologySAGE

Published: Jun 1, 1984

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