Forensic Science Evidence and Expert Witness Testimony

Reliability through Reform?

Paul Roberts, Michael Stockdale (Herausgeber)

Buch | Hardcover

456 Seiten

2018
Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd (Verlag)
978-1-78811-102-7 (ISBN)

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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 jurisdictions across Europe and beyond. 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.

Contributors include: S. Carr, E. Cunliffe, G. Edmond, S. Farrar, A. Gallop, R. Graham, L. Heffernan, E.J. Imwinkelried, A. Jackson, A.C. McCartney, M.M. Muhamad, E. Piasecki, P. Roberts, M. Stockdale, G. Tully, J. Vuille, T. Ward, T.J. Wilson

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

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
Joëlle Vuille

13. ‘All We Need to Know’? Questioning Transnational Scientific Evidence
Carole McCartney and Rick Graham

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	09.01.2019
Verlagsort	Cheltenham
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Sonstiges ► Geschenkbücher
	Recht / Steuern ► EU / Internationales Recht
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Kriminologie
	Recht / Steuern ► Strafrecht ► Strafverfahrensrecht
ISBN-10	1-78811-102-8 / 1788111028
ISBN-13	978-1-78811-102-7 / 9781788111027
Zustand	Neuware