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Remapping The Path Forward: Toward A Systemic View Of Forensic Science Reform And Oversight, Jennifer E. Laurin
Remapping The Path Forward: Toward A Systemic View Of Forensic Science Reform And Oversight, Jennifer E. Laurin
Jennifer E. Laurin
The 2009 report of the National Academy of Sciences on the state of forensic science in the American criminal justice system has fundamentally altered the landscape for scientific evidence in the criminal process, and is now setting the terms for the future of forensic science reform and practice. But the accomplishments of the Report must not obscure the vast terrain that remains untouched by the path of reform that it charts. This Article aims to illuminate a critical and currently neglected feature of that territory, namely, the manner in which police and prosecutors, as upstream users of forensic science, select …
Remapping The Path Forward: Toward A Systemic View Of Forensic Science Reform And Oversight, Jennifer E. Laurin
Remapping The Path Forward: Toward A Systemic View Of Forensic Science Reform And Oversight, Jennifer E. Laurin
Jennifer E. Laurin
The 2009 report of the National Academy of Sciences on the state of forensic science in the American criminal justice system has fundamentally altered the landscape for scientific evidence in the criminal process, and is now setting the terms for the future of forensic science reform and practice. But the accomplishments of the Report must not obscure the vast terrain that remains untouched by the path of reform that it charts. This Article aims to illuminate a critical and currently neglected feature of that territory, namely, the manner in which police and prosecutors, as upstream users of forensic science, select …