Evaluating scientific evidence
Subtitle: an interdisciplinary framework for intellectual due process
By: Erica Beecher-Monas.
Series: The law in context series; Law in context
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Cambridge; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 254
ISBN-13: 9780521859271; 9780521676557
Subjects: Evidence, Expert -- United States.; Forensic sciences -- United States.; Evidence, Expert.; Forensic sciences.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: value: Introduction; value: Triers of science; value: What is intellectual due process?; value: A framework of analysis; value: Toxic torts and the causation conundrum; value: Criminal identification evidence; value: Future dangerousness testimony : the epistemology of prediction; value: Barefoot or Daubert? : a cognitive perspective on vetting future dangerousness testimony; value: Future dangerousness and sexual offenders; value: Models of rationality : evaluating social psychology; value: Evaluating battered woman syndrome; value: Conclusion.