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Sentence first, verdict afterwards

Think with Pinker

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How to Make a More Perfect Justice System?

"We have to stop ourselves from the overwhelming tendency to accept every accusation, every memory as true and accurate uncritically," she says. "Just because somebody tells you something with a lot of detail ... it doesn't mean it really happened." The question is how to make a more perfect justice system, understanding that we never achieve perfection,. but to try to deal with some of the errors that we've been talking about.

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