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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index
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