Publication Date:
2005-08-06
Description:
Converging legal and scientific forces are pushing the traditional forensic identification sciences toward fundamental change. The assumption of discernible uniqueness that resides at the core of these fields is weakened by evidence of errors in proficiency testing and in actual cases. Changes in the law pertaining to the admissibility of expert evidence in court, together with the emergence of DNA typing as a model for a scientifically defensible approach to questions of shared identity, are driving the older forensic sciences toward a new scientific paradigm.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Saks, Michael J -- Koehler, Jonathan J -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2005 Aug 5;309(5736):892-5.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉College of Law, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA. saks@asu.edu〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16081727" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
DNA/classification
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Expert Testimony
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Forecasting
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Forensic Sciences/legislation & jurisprudence/*trends
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Humans
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Models, Theoretical
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Reproducibility of Results
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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