Forensic evidence in court : evaluation and scientific opinion /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Adam, Craig (Author)
Corporate Author: EBSCOhost
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom : John Wiley & Sons, 2016.
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Table of Contents:
  • An introduction to the admissibility of expert scientific opinion
  • Admissibility from the legal perspective
  • Forensic science and the law: the path forward
  • Scientific opinion and the law in practice
  • Fundamentals of the interpretation and evaluation of scientific evidence
  • Case studies in expert opinion
  • Formal methods for logical evaluation
  • Case studies in probabilistic opinion
  • Cognitive bias and expert opinion
  • The evaluation of DNA profile evidence
  • Low template DNA
  • Footwear marks in court
  • Fingerprints and fingermarks
  • identifying individuals?
  • Trace evidence, databases and evaluation
  • Firearm and tool-mark evidence
  • Expert opinion and evidence of human identity
  • Questioned documents
  • Bloodstain pattern analysis
  • Conflicting expert opinion: SIDS and the medical expert witness.