English Explanatory Dictionary

Blackstone's ratio

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The ratio of guilty people who go unpunished by the law to innocent people who are unjustly convicted.

Word forms

Blackstone's ratio

Etymology

After the English jurist William Blackstone, who wrote, "It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer."

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