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Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony : reliability through reform? / edited by Paul Roberts (Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence, University of Nottingham), and Michael Stockdale (Professor, Head of Law and Director of the Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK).
Roberts, Paul, 1968- editor.; Stockdale, Michael (Michael William), editor.; Edward Elgar Publishing, publisher.
2018
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Forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony : reliability through reform? / edited by Paul Roberts (Professor of Criminal Jurisprudence, University of Nottingham), and Michael Stockdale (Professor, Head of Law and Director of the Northumbria Centre for Evidence and Criminal Justice Studies, Northumbria University, Newcastle, UK).
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Northampton, MA : Edward Elgar Pub., Inc., 2018.
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This book discusses the intense practical and theoretical challenges of forensic science evidence and the pivotal role it plays in modern criminal proceedings. A global team of prominent scholars and practitioners explores the contemporary challenges of forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony from a variety of theoretical, practical and jurisdictional perspectives. Both the methodological integrity and the reliability of forensic science have been questioned in recent official reports and inquiries. The wide-ranging contributions to this book offer thorough and far-reaching explorations of the institutional organisation of forensic science, its epistemological and methodological foundations, and its procedural regulation, applications and evaluation in multiple legal jurisdictions. The development and reform of expert evidence law and procedural regulation are reconsidered from a range of legal and scientific perspectives. Brimming with comparative and interdisciplinary insight, this book also explores the transnational dimensions of contemporary forensic science, assessing its value and appropriate uses as expert evidence in criminal investigations, prosecutions and trials. This contemporary book will be essential reading for scholars, advanced students, practitioners and policymakers concerned with the role of forensic science in the administration of criminal justice.
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Contents: Introduction
Forensic science, evidential reliability and institutional reform / Paul Roberts and Michael Stockdale
1. Making sense of forensic science evidence / Paul Roberts
2. Re-assessing reliability / Gary Edmond
3. Admissibility, reliability and common law epistemology / Tony Ward
4. Regulating forensic science / Gillian Tully
5. Clarifying the 'reliability' continuum and testing its limits: biometric (fingerprint and DNA) expert evidence / Sophie Carr, Angela Gallop, Emma Piasecki, Gillian Tully, and Tim J Wilson
6. Re-examining the 'reliability' of forensic pathology evidence / Tim J Wilson, Adam Jackson, Angela Gallop and Emma Piasecki
7. Reliability by procedural rule reform?: expert evidence and the civil-criminal-family procedure rules trichotomy / Michael Stockdale
8. Expert evidence law reform in Ireland / Liz Heffernan
9. Regulating expert evidence in US courts: measuring Daubert's legacy / Edward J Imwinkelried
10. A new Canadian paradigm?: judicial gatekeeping and the reliability of expert evidence / Emma Cunliffe
11. Reliability and reform of expert evidence in Malaysia's developmental state: putting the cart before the horse? / Salim Farrar and Mohd Munzil Bin Muhamad
12. Forensic science evidence in non-adversary criminal justice systems / Joe lle Vuille
13. 'All we need to know'?: questioning transnational scientific evidence / Carole McCartney and Rick Graham
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