Miscarriage of Justice in Legal System

Purpose: The aim of the study is to examine the miscarriage of justice in the Legal system Methodology: This study adopted a desktop methodology. This study used secondary data from which include review of existing literature from already published studies and reports that was easily accessed through online journals and libraries. Findings: The study reveals that countries have many numerous legal and institutional framework governing justice, nevertheless the law has failed to promote justice due to poor and shallow investigative process, corruption, incompetent forensic science and witness misidentification. The study also shows that there are innocent people who are serving sentences or have been pushed for crime they did not commit and the factually guilty walking free Unique Contribution to Theory, Practice and Policy: The study was anchored on theory of justice and neo-liberalism theory. The study recommends that there is need to develop a sophisticated and insightful working framework of criminology of wrongful prosecution. The study recommends that researchers should continue to identify the weaknesses in the police investigative and interview process and to propose reform.