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CJC-CELPA talk by Dr Federico Picinali

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Location: CELPA Seminar Room

Dr Federico Picinali, Associate Professor of Law at the London School of Economics and Political Science will be presenting a working paper titled Justice In-Between: The Decision-Theoretic Case for Many-Valued Criminal Verdicts on May 14, 2019. This event is jointly organised by Warwick's Criminal Justice Centre (CJC) and Centre for Ethics, Law and Public Affairs (CELPA). The abstract of the paper is:

The article compares the binary and the many-valued models of the verdict system. The binary model – by far the most popular in contemporary criminal jurisdictions – is characterised by a single standard of proof. If the standard is met, the verdict is ‘guilty’ and the consequence of punishment ensues; if the standard is not met, the verdict is ‘not-guilty’ and no punishment is meted out. The many-valued model, instead, involves at least two standards of proof, each accompanied by a distinct verdict. An additional verdict is reserved for the case in which the lowest standard is not satisfied. Each verdict may be coupled with a sanction, the severity of which increases with the probability of guilt corresponding to the verdict. The article contributes to the justification of the many-valued model. Relying on decision theory, it shows that this model is superior to the binary model. The article focuses, in particular, on a many-valued system with a single intermediate option between acquittal and conviction, and it identifies concrete intermediate options that would warrant the superiority of this system over our current binary system.

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