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House rules : a novel
A teenager with Asperger's syndrome--smart, quirky, with a passion for crime scene analysis--winds up on trial for murder.
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Justice and Science
Databases of both convicted offenders and no-suspect cases demonstrate the power of DNA testing to solve the unsolvable. George \"Woody\" Clarke is a leading authority in legal circles and among the news media because of his expertise in DNA evidence. In this memoir, Clarke chronicles his experiences in some of the most disturbing and notorious sexual assault and murder court cases in California. He charts the beginnings of DNA testing in police investigations and the fight for its acceptance by courts and juries. He illustrates the power of science in cases he personally prosecuted or in which he assisted, including his work with the prosecution team in the trial of O. J. Simpson.Clarke also covers cases where DNA evidence was used to exonerate. He directed a special project in San Diego County, proactively examining over six hundred cases of defendants convicted and sentenced to prison before 1993, with the goal of finding instances in which DNA typing might add new evidence and then offered testing to those inmates.As Clarke tells the story of how he came to understand and use this new form of evidence, readers will develop a new appreciation for the role of science in the legal system.
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Club CSI : the case of the missing moola
Club CSI members Ben, Corey, and Hannah combine what they have learned in their forensic science class with investigative skills to find out who stole the money from the class trip fund.
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Uniqueness in the forensic identification sciences—Fact or fiction?
Fingerprint analysts, firearms and toolmark examiners, and forensic odontologists often rely on the uniqueness proposition in order to support their theory of identification. However, much of the literature claiming to have proven uniqueness in the forensic identification sciences is methodologically weak, and suffers flaws that negate any such conclusion being drawn. The finding of uniqueness in any study appears to be an overstatement of the significance of its results, and in several instances, this claim is made despite contrary data being presented. The mathematical and philosophical viewpoint regarding this topic is that obtaining definitive proof of uniqueness is considered impossible by modern scientific methods. More importantly, there appears to be no logical reason to pursue such research, as commentators have established that uniqueness is not the essential requirement for forming forensic conclusions. The courts have also accepted this in several recent cases in the United States, and have dismissed the concept of uniqueness as irrelevant to the more fundamental question of the reliability of the forensic analysis.
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Forensics squad unleashed
\"Tabitha is thrilled to be attending a summer forensics camp, even if she has to go with her sort-of friend Mason. Soon she is learning to dust for fingerprints, photograph a crime scene and take footprint impressions. Even though the camp instructors have set up a \"crime\" for the kids to solve, Tabitha longs to use her newfound skills to solve a real-life mystery. She's pretty sure a dognapping ring is active in her Montreal neighborhood, and when her beloved dog, Roxie, is stolen, she convinces her forensics \"team\" to help her find Roxie and nab the 'nappers.\"-- From Amazon.com.
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Rationalization is rational
Rationalization occurs when a person has performed an action and then concocts the beliefs and desires that would have made it rational. Then, people often adjust their own beliefs and desires to match the concocted ones. While many studies demonstrate rationalization, and a few theories describe its underlying cognitive mechanisms, we have little understanding of its function. Why is the mind designed to construct post hoc rationalizations of its behavior, and then to adopt them? This may accomplish an important task: transferring information between the different kinds of processes and representations that influence our behavior. Human decision making does not rely on a single process; it is influenced by reason, habit, instinct, norms, and so on. Several of these influences are not organized according to rational choice (i.e., computing and maximizing expected value). Rationalization extracts implicit information – true beliefs and useful desires – from the influence of these non-rational systems on behavior. This is a useful fiction – fiction, because it imputes reason to non-rational psychological processes; useful, because it can improve subsequent reasoning. More generally, rationalization belongs to the broader class of representational exchange mechanisms, which transfer information between many different kinds of psychological representations that guide our behavior. Representational exchange enables us to represent any information in the manner best suited to the particular tasks that require it, balancing accuracy, efficiency, and flexibility in thought. The theory of representational exchange reveals connections between rationalization and theory of mind, inverse reinforcement learning, thought experiments, and reflective equilibrium.
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The trail of tricks : Batman & Robin use footwear and tire tread analysis to crack the case
Robbers have struck the Gotham City Zoo! But shoe prints and tire tracks left behind may hold the key to unraveling the crime. Join Batman and Robin as they use footprint and tire tread analysis to crack the case and bring two of their most notorious enemies to justice.
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A Case for Sherlock: The Double Helix of Crime Fiction and Science
Somewhere in the knotty history of the detective story -- beginning with Edgar Allan Poe's ''Murders in the Rue Morgue'' (1842) -- must be buried clues to more than just our notions of crime and punishment. Why the eccentric detective? The elaborate masquerade of the criminal? The ornate trappings? The racial allusions that stain the genre? Trollope thought detective stories had plots that were too complex and characters that were too simple. But that just makes their power more intriguing. In recent years many literary investigators have been on the case. The detective story has become a touchstone for academic criticism, raising issues that have become cultural obsessions. There have been examinations of the detective as skilled reader of cryptic texts and of the detective novel as a bourgeois morality tale. Walter Benjamin has turned up as a witness: the German critic alluded to detective stories when describing the mysterious traces left by bodies moving through 19th-century urban crowds. So has the French philosopher Michel Foucault: his detective would be an unknowing agent of the state's bureaucratic power, banishing the foreign and the eccentric, branding them crazy or criminal and imposing an unyielding order.
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The spitting image : Batman & Robin use DNA analysis to crack the case
Gotham Jems jewelry store has been robbed! But a tiny splotch of moisture may hold the key to unraveling the crime. Join Batman and Robin as they use DNA analysis to crack the case and bring one of their most notorious enemies to justice.
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Forensic Audio and Voice Analysis: TV Series Reinforce False Popular Beliefs
People’s perception of forensic evidence is greatly influenced by crime TV series. The analysis of the human voice is no exception. However, unlike fingerprints—with which fiction and popular beliefs draw an incorrect parallel—the human voice varies according to many factors, can be altered deliberately, and its potential uniqueness has yet to be proven. Starting with a cursory examination of landmarks in forensic voice analysis that exemplify how the voiceprint fallacy came about and why people think they can recognize people’s voices, we then provide a thorough inspection of over 100 excerpts from TV series. Through this analysis, we seek to characterize the narrative and aesthetic processes that fashion our perception of scientific evidence when it comes to identifying somebody based on voice analysis. These processes converge to exaggerate the reliability of forensic voice analysis. We complement our examination with plausibility ratings of a subset of excerpts. We claim that these biased representations have led to a situation where, even today, one of the main challenges faced by forensic voice specialists is to convince trial jurors, judges, lawyers, and police officers that forensic voice comparison can by no means give the sort of straightforward answers that fingerprints or DNA permit.
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