Preventing miscarriages of justice Can judges learn to use Bayes rule, scenario theory and causal Bayesian Networks in the evaluation of evidence?

Over the last 20 years, miscarriages of justice, such as Lucia de Berk (the Netherlands), Sally Clark (United Kingdom) and Thomas Quick (Sweden), have led to social and scientific debate on how to prevent errors in the judicial evaluation of evidence. Preventing Miscarriages of Justice will investigate how judges can evaluate evidence more rationally by 1. integrating the two main theoretical approaches to evidence evaluation; 2. developing, on this basis, an integrated method that will enable judges to reason more rationally about evidence in criminal cases; and 3. empirically testing the efficacy of the method.