Dr Marianne Wade reflects on ongoing challenge that criminal justice systems face across the USA and UK in the aftermath of high-profile sex offender cases.
At the heart of the Mandelson scandal – currently ricocheting dangerously through the highest levels of British politics – is the disgraced, former Lord’s assertion “it just could never happen in Britain.” With one sentence he – unwittingly – declares criminal justice failure a norm.
A man committing offences now being qualified even as potential crimes against humanity – Jeffrey Epstein – appears to have been so able to control the narrative surrounding his conviction, he was able to dupe a sitting European Commissioner into believing it constituted a miscarriage of justice. In fact, Epstein’s 2008 conviction – for solicitation of prostitution involving a minor – was scandalously mild both in...Read full article
Reader in Criminal Justice
Birmingham Law School staff profile: Dr Marianne Wade
