| Description |
1 online resource (xx, 237 pages). |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justice
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SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justice.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index. |
| Contents |
Services of experts in the conduct of judicial inquiries / Clemens Herschel -- Scholarship in the courtroom : the criminologist as expert witness / Patrick R. Anderson -- The social scientist in court / Marvin E. Wolfgang -- Pragmatism and advocacy in criminal justice expert witnessing / L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Patrick R. Anderson -- Criminal justice scholars as expert witnesses : a descriptive analysis / L. Thomas Winfree, Jr., and Patrick R. Anderson -- Social scientists as expert witnesses : their use, misuse, and sometimes abuse / Sandra Evans Skovron and Joseph E. Scott -- Police expert witnesses / James J. Fyfe -- Sociologists as expert witnesses in capital cases : a case study / Michael L. Radelet. |
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All that glitters is not necessarily gold : negative consequences of expert witnessing in criminal justice / L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. -- The needs of the judiciary and misapplication of social science research : the case of female guards in men's prisons / Geoffrey P. Alpert -- The role of the expert on prison conditions : the battle of footnotes in Rhodes v. Chapman / Hans Toch -- The ethics of testimony : conflicting views on the role of the criminologist as expert witness / Barton L. Ingraham. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Evidence, Expert -- United States.
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Evidence, Expert. |
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United States. |
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Criminologists -- United States.
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Criminologists. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Added Author |
Anderson, Patrick R., 1943-
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Winfree, L. Thomas, Jr., 1946-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Expert witnesses. Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1987 0887064485 (DLC) 86014519 (OCoLC)14068549 |
| ISBN |
058507576X (electronic book) |
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9780585075761 (electronic book) |
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