The Incentive Asymmetry: Why Weaponising a False Accusation Is Rational Behaviour
30 June 2026
Why weaponising a false accusation is rational: the system rewards it before it tests it, and consequences for the accuser are rare, late, and fought.
Wrongful Convictions · False Allegations · Memory & the Courts
30 June 2026
Why weaponising a false accusation is rational: the system rewards it before it tests it, and consequences for the accuser are rare, late, and fought.
The former US transportation secretary says an anonymous, false report — which police determined was meritless — led Child Protective Services to separate him from his young twins for 24 hours, in what he calls a “cruel, politically motivated hoax”.
30 June 2026
Sky News host Andrew Bolt has criticised the decision to grant two men compensation by the federal government’s National Redress Scheme for alleged historical…
31 January 2025
The headline of a report in the Age Newspaper on Wednesday 22 March 2023 read, “Gobbo seeks immunity deal to dob on police.” Gobbo refers, of course, to Nicola…
3 April 2023
Lamar Johnson, sentenced to life for the killing, was released after judge found ‘reliable evidence of actual innocence’
15 February 2023
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8 September 2022
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. – A former Duval County teacher of the year said she is devastated and maintains she did nothing wrong after charges of child abuse were…
30 August 2022
Sullivan Walter, 53, with, left to right, his brothers Joseph Walter and Byron Walter Sr, and Innocence Project New Orleans legal director Richard Davis…
26 August 2022
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