Title: Evaluating scientific evidence : an interdisciplinary framework for intellectual due process /
Authors: Beecher-Monas, Erica, 1949-2017
Publisher: Cambridge University Press,
Year: 2007
Subjects: Evidence, Expert United States.; Forensic sciences United States; Evidence, Expert.; Forensic sciences.
Abstract: "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 also in other common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada, and Australia."--BOOK JACKET.
Contents: Triers of science -- What is 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.