Author: Steffen W. GraaePublisher:
ISBN: 9781663305510
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages :
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The Law of Evidence in the District of Columbia
Author: Steffen W. GraaePublisher:
ISBN: 9781663305510
Category : Evidence (Law)
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Forensic Architecture
Author: Eyal WeizmanPublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 1935408178
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In recent years, a little-known research group named Forensic Architecture began using novel research methods to undertake a series of investigations into human rights abuses. Today, the group provides crucial evidence for international courts and works with a wide range of activist groups, NGOs, Amnesty International, and the UN. Beyond shedding new light on human rights violations and state crimes across the globe, Forensic Architecture has also created a new form of investigative practice that bears its name. The group uses architecture as an optical device to investigate armed conflicts and environmental destruction, as well as to cross-reference a variety of evidence sources, such as new media, remote sensing, material analysis, witness testimony, and crowd-sourcing. In Forensic Architecture, Eyal Weizman, the group’s founder, provides, for the first time, an in-depth introduction to the history, practice, assumptions, potentials, and double binds of this practice. The book includes an extensive array of images, maps, and detailed documentation that records the intricate work the group has performed. Included in this volume are case studies that traverse multiple scales and durations, ranging from the analysis of the shrapnel fragments in a room struck by drones in Pakistan, the reconstruction of a contested shooting in the West Bank, the architectural recreation of a secret Syrian detention center from the memory of its survivors, a blow-by-blow account of a day-long battle in Gaza, and an investigation of environmental violence and climate change in the Guatemalan highlands and elsewhere. Weizman’s Forensic Architecture, stunning and shocking in its critical narrative, powerful images, and daring investigations, presents a new form of public truth, technologically, architecturally, and aesthetically produced. Their practice calls for a transformative politics in which architecture as a field of knowledge and a mode of interpretation exposes and confronts ever-new forms of state violence and secrecy.
Anomalies and Converging Evidence
Author: Joshua A. HemmerichThe Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence
Author: National Research CouncilPublisher: National Academies Press
ISBN: 0309134404
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
In 1992 the National Research Council issued DNA Technology in Forensic Science, a book that documented the state of the art in this emerging field. Recently, this volume was brought to worldwide attention in the murder trial of celebrity O. J. Simpson. The Evaluation of Forensic DNA Evidence reports on developments in population genetics and statistics since the original volume was published. The committee comments on statements in the original book that proved controversial or that have been misapplied in the courts. This volume offers recommendations for handling DNA samples, performing calculations, and other aspects of using DNA as a forensic toolâ€"modifying some recommendations presented in the 1992 volume. The update addresses two major areas: Determination of DNA profiles. The committee considers how laboratory errors (particularly false matches) can arise, how errors might be reduced, and how to take into account the fact that the error rate can never be reduced to zero. Interpretation of a finding that the DNA profile of a suspect or victim matches the evidence DNA. The committee addresses controversies in population genetics, exploring the problems that arise from the mixture of groups and subgroups in the American population and how this substructure can be accounted for in calculating frequencies. This volume examines statistical issues in interpreting frequencies as probabilities, including adjustments when a suspect is found through a database search. The committee includes a detailed discussion of what its recommendations would mean in the courtroom, with numerous case citations. By resolving several remaining issues in the evaluation of this increasingly important area of forensic evidence, this technical update will be important to forensic scientists and population geneticistsâ€"and helpful to attorneys, judges, and others who need to understand DNA and the law. Anyone working in laboratories and in the courts or anyone studying this issue should own this book.
United States Attorneys' Manual
Author: United States. Department of JusticePublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Justice, Administration of
Languages : en
Pages :
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Threshold Concepts and Transformational Learning
Author: Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9460912079
Category : Education
Languages : en
Pages : 490
Book Description
Over the last decade the notion of ‘threshold concepts’ has proved influential around the world as a powerful means of exploring and discussing the key points of transformation that students experience in their higher education courses and the ‘troublesome knowledge’ that these often present.
The Threshold Test of Admissibility for Science as a Form of Expert Evidence
Author: Emma Jane ShawPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 220
Book Description
The aim of this thesis is to address, by analysis, the issue of the effectiveness of the threshold tests of admissibility as a reliability assessment for scientific evidence. The focus will be on the question of reliability of the evidence proffered with limited discussion concerning the reliability of the experts themselves. In respect to the threshold test of admissibility, the main thrust of the argument will be directed to the admissibility of the evidence itself, since this component is subject to the greater degree of uncertainty and unreliability. The qualifications of the expert to give the scientific evidence in question, will receive limited mention in the discussion, although it forms part of the threshold test.
Reference Manual on Scientific Evidence
Author: Threshold of Evidence
Author: Rick SmailPublisher: WestBow Press
ISBN: 9781512758290
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Threshold of Evidence will challenge you as you read about the changes that take place in three men and their families in the first century A.D. Witness the impact that one life had on them as well as the world around them. The choices that each are faced with will bring you to a decision as well. You will relate to the characters and see the plan of God change their viewpoint, and challenge their tradition. Filled with suspense and the miraculous, you will finish the book as a different person than began.
The Threshold of the Visible World
Author: Kaja SilvermanPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317795970
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
In The Threshold of the Visible World Kaja Silverman advances a revolutionary new political aesthetic, exploring the possibilities for looking beyond the restrictive mandates of the self, and the normative aspects of the cultural image-repertoire. She provides a detailed account of the social and psychic forces which constrain us to look and identify in normative ways, and the violence which that normativity implies.