Evaluating scientific evidence : an interdisciplinary framework for intellectual due process / Erica Beecher-Monas.
2007
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Evaluating scientific evidence : an interdisciplinary framework for intellectual due process / Erica Beecher-Monas.
Imprint
Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Description
1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).
Series
Law in context.
Formatted Contents Note
Triers of science
Intellectual due process
A framework of analysis
Toxic torts and the causation conundrum
Criminal identification evidence
Future dangerousness testimony : the epistemology of prediction
Barefoot or Daubert? : a cognitive perspective on vetting future
Dangerousness testimony
Future dangerousness and sexual offenders
Models of rationality : evaluating social psychology
Evaluating battered woman syndrome.
Intellectual due process
A framework of analysis
Toxic torts and the causation conundrum
Criminal identification evidence
Future dangerousness testimony : the epistemology of prediction
Barefoot or Daubert? : a cognitive perspective on vetting future
Dangerousness testimony
Future dangerousness and sexual offenders
Models of rationality : evaluating social psychology
Evaluating battered woman syndrome.
Summary
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 in other common law countries such as the United Kingdom, Canada and Australia. Controversies are rife over what is permissible use of genetic information, whether chemical exposure causes disease, whether future dangerousness of violent or sexual offenders can be predicted, whether such time-honored methods of criminal identification (such as microscopic hair analysis, for example) have any better foundation than ancient divination rituals, among other important topics. This book examines the process of evaluating scientific evidence in both civil and criminal contexts, and explains how decisions by nonscientists that embody scientific knowledge can be improved.
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Alternate Title
Cambridge Core.
Language
English
ISBN
9780511607448 ebook
9780521859271 (hardback)
9780521676557 (paperback)
9780521859271 (hardback)
9780521676557 (paperback)
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