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Expert witnesses : criminologists in the courtroom / edited by Patrick R. Anderson and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justicePublication details: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, �1987.Description: 1 online resource (xx, 237 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 058507576X
  • 9780585075761
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Expert witnesses.DDC classification:
  • 345.73/066 347.30566 19
LOC classification:
  • KF9674 .E95 1987eb
Online resources:
Partial 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.
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.
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 209-222) and index.

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.

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.

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