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| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Patrick R Anderson; Latham T Winfree |
| ISBN: | 0887064485 9780887064487 0887064493 9780887064494 |
| OCLC Number: | 14068549 |
| Notes: | Includes index. |
| Description: | xx, 237 p. ; 24 cm. |
| 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. |
| Series Title: | SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justice |
| Responsibility: | edited by Patrick R. Anderson and L. Thomas Winfree, Jr. |
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