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
Description: "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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Triers of science; title: Intellectual due process; title: A framework of analysis; title: Toxic torts and the causation conundrum; title: Criminal identification evidence; title: Future dangerousness testimony : the epistemology of prediction; title: Barefoot or Daubert? : a cognitive perspective on vetting future; title: Dangerousness testimony; title: Future dangerousness and sexual offenders; title: Models of rationality : evaluating social psychology; title: Evaluating battered woman syndrome.