TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beecher-Monas,Erica
TI  - Evaluating scientific evidence: an interdisciplinary framework for intellectual due process 
T2  - The law in context series
SN  - 052167655X
AV  - KF8961 .B44 2007eb
U1  - 347.73/67 22
PY  - 2007///
CY  - Cambridge, New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Evidence, Expert
KW  - United States
KW  - Forensic sciences
KW  - Forensic Sciences
KW  - Expertises
KW  - États-Unis
KW  - Criminalistique
KW  - forensic science
KW  - aat
KW  - LAW
KW  - Civil Procedure
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Legal Services
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Government
KW  - Judicial Branch
KW  - Preuves
KW  - eclas
KW  - Expertises judiciaires
KW  - Médecine
KW  - Droit pénal
KW  - Evaluation
KW  - Pays occidentaux
KW  - Recherche interdisciplinaire
KW  - fast
KW  - Beweisführung
KW  - gnd
KW  - Beweismittel
KW  - Strafverfahrensrecht
KW  - USA
KW  - swd
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Triers of science -- Intellectual due process -- A framework of analysis -- Toxic torts and the causation conundrum -- Criminal identification evidence -- Future dangerousness testimony : the epistemology of prediction -- Barefoot or Daubert? : a cognitive perspective on vetting future -- Dangerousness testimony -- Future dangerousness and sexual offenders -- Models of rationality : evaluating social psychology -- Evaluating battered woman syndrome
N2  - Scientific evidence is crucial in a burgeoning number of litigated cases, legislative enactments, regulatory decisions, and scholarly arguments. Evaluating Scientific Evidence explores the question of what counts as scientific knowledge, a question that has become a focus of heated courtroom and scholarly debate, not only in the United States, but in other common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Controversies are rife over what is permissible use of genetic information, whether chemical exposure causes disease, whether future dangerousness of violent or sexual offenders can be predicted, whether such time-honored methods of criminal identification (such as microscopic hair analysis, for example) have any better foundation than ancient divination rituals, among other important topics. This book examines the process of evaluating scientific evidence in both civil and criminal contexts, and explains how decisions by nonscientists that embody scientific knowledge can be improved
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