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Evaluating scientific evidence : an interdisciplinary framework for intellectual due process /
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 sch...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
©2007.
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| Colección: | Law in context.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | 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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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xi, 254 pages) |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 052167655X 9780521676557 0521859271 9780521859271 0511269633 9780511269639 9780511270192 0511270194 9780511607448 051160744X 1107167302 9781107167308 1280750545 9781280750540 0511268084 9780511268083 0511319673 9780511319679 0511268750 9780511268755 9786610750542 6610750548 |