Blackstone's ratio
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In criminal law, Blackstone's ratio is the ratio between letting guilty go unpunished and convicting innocent people, two forms of miscarriage of justice. There is also a long history of similar senti
Statue of William Blackstone located at Constitution Ave & 3rd St. NW, Washington, D.C.
The Commentaries on the Laws of England, commonly known by the informal name Blackstone's Commentaries, is an influential 18th-century treatise on the common law of England by Sir William Blackstone,
Blackstone's ratio
…to adopt different numerical values for the ratio. The Blackstone's formulation, stated by the English jurist William Blackstone in his seminal work Commentaries on the Laws of England in the 1760s, is: It is better that ten guilty persons escape than that one innocent suffer…
The title page of the first book of William Blackstone's Commentaries on the Laws of England (1st ed., 1765)