Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach. Second Edition

- Publisher:
- Irwin Law Inc.
- Publication date:
- 2009-06-16
- Authors:
- Alan D. Gold
- ISBN:
- 9781552212493
Description:
Joint winner of the 2005 Walter Owen Book Prize (first edition). Expert Evidence in Criminal Law: The Scientific Approach by Alan D. Gold is the first and only Canadian book on expert evidence entirely from a scientific perspective. The book is written in plain language, making it easily accessible to lawyers and judges approaching the topic for the first time. At the same time, it contains all the principles and knowledge needed to expose bogus experts and junk science and to reduce inflated expert evidence to its proper valuation. Everything from forensic identification evidence, including fingerprints and toolmarks, to psychological and psychiatric evidence, such as post traumatic stress syndrome, are discussed and evaluated according to the rules of science and the deficiencies and weaknesses of the evidence are demonstrated in detail. The book has been thoroughly updated in this new edition to reflect developments in both the law and science.
Index
- About the Author
- Foreword
- Preface to the Second Edition
- Preface to the First Edition
- Introduction
- The U.S. Revolution
- The Admissibility of Expert Opinion Evidence
- Science: Some Basic Concepts
- Science and the Forensic Sciences
- Index
- Science and Syndromes, Profiles, and Indicators
- Science and 'Consistent with' Evidence
- Science and Social Science Evidence
- Problematic Procedural Issues
- Proposals for Change
- Table of Cases
- Science and Psychiatric and Psychological Evidence
- Preliminary sections