TY - BOOK
T1 - Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony
T2 - Reliability through Reform?
AU - Roberts, Paul
AU - Stockdale, Michael
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Editors and Contributing Authors Severally 2018. All rights reserved.
PY - 2018/1/1
Y1 - 2018/1/1
N2 - Forensic science evidence plays a pivotal role in modern criminal proceedings. Yet such evidence poses intense practical and theoretical challenges. It can be unreliable or misleading and has been associated with miscarriages of justice. In this original and insightful book, a global team of prominent scholars and practitioners explore the contemporary challenges of forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony from a variety of theoretical, practical and jurisdictional perspectives. Chapters encompass the institutional organisation of forensic science, its procedural regulation, evaluation and reform, and brim with comparative insight.
AB - Forensic science evidence plays a pivotal role in modern criminal proceedings. Yet such evidence poses intense practical and theoretical challenges. It can be unreliable or misleading and has been associated with miscarriages of justice. In this original and insightful book, a global team of prominent scholars and practitioners explore the contemporary challenges of forensic science evidence and expert witness testimony from a variety of theoretical, practical and jurisdictional perspectives. Chapters encompass the institutional organisation of forensic science, its procedural regulation, evaluation and reform, and brim with comparative insight.
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85117606626&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.4337/9781788111034
DO - 10.4337/9781788111034
M3 - Book
AN - SCOPUS:85117606626
SN - 9781788111027
BT - Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony
PB - Edward Elgar
ER -
