Forensic science in court
Subtitle: challenges in the twenty-first century
By: by Donald E. Shelton
Series: Issues in crime & justice
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Lanham, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 183
ISBN-13: 9781442201873; 9781442201880; 9781442201897
Subjects: Expert Evidence; Criminal Evidence; Forensic sciences
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 149-175) and index.
Table of contents: title: The history and development of forensic scientific evidence; title: The problem of junk science : Frye and the Daubert Triology; title: DNA : the new gold standard; title: The "who" question; title: More "who" questions; title: The "how" question; title: The "whether" question : social science evidence in criminal cases; title: Jurors and forensic science evidence.