Table of Contents

Introduction

Zachary Hoskins and Jon Robson

1. Credibility Deficits, Memory Errors, and the Criminal Trial

Kathy Puddifoot

2. Eyewitness Testimony, the Misinformation Effect, and Reasonable Doubt

Christopher Bennett

3. On Testifying and Giving Evidence

Stephen Wright

4. Explaining the Justificatory Asymmetry Between Statistical and Individualized Evidence

Renèe Jorgensen Bolinger

5. Character, "Propensities", and the (Mis)use of Statistics in Criminal Trials

R.A. Duff and S.E. Marshall

6. Against Legal Probabilism

Martin Smith

7. Justified Belief and Just Conviction

Clayton Littlejohn

8. The "She Said, He Said" Paradox and the Proof Paradox

Georgi Gardiner

9. Against the Odds: The Case for a Modal Understanding of Due Care

Jeffrey Helmreich and Duncan Pritchard

10. Criminal Trials for Preventive Deprivations of Liberty

Hadassa Noorda

About the Author

Zachary Hoskins is an associate professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is author of Beyond Punishment? A Normative Account of the Collateral Legal Consequences of Conviction (2019) and is co-editor of The New Philosophy of Criminal Law (2016) and International Criminal Law and Philosophy (2010).

Jon Robson is an assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Nottingham. He is co-editor of Aesthetics and the Sciences of Mind (2014) and The Aesthetics of Videogames (Routledge, 2018) as well as co-author of A Critical Introduction to the Metaphysics of Time (2016).