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Expert witnesses : criminologists in the courtroom
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Expert witnesses : criminologists in the courtroom

Author: Patrick R Anderson; Latham T Winfree
Publisher: Albany, N.Y. : State University of New York Press, ©1987.
Series: SUNY series in critical issues in criminal justice
Edition/Format: Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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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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