Forensic science - A true science ?
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serval:BIB_3450E7B8B473
Type
Article: article from journal or magazin.
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Title
Forensic science - A true science ?
Journal
Australian Journal of Forensic Sciences
ISSN
1834-562X
Publication state
Published
Issued date
06/2011
Peer-reviewed
Oui
Volume
43
Number
2-3
Pages
157-176
Language
english
Abstract
While the US jurisprudence of the 1993 Daubert requires judges to question not only the methodology behind, but also the principles governing, a body of knowledge to qualify it as scientific, can forensic science, based on Locard's and Kirk's Principles, pretend to this higher status in the courtroom ? Moving away from the disputable American legal debate, this historical and philosophical study will screen the relevance of the different logical epistemologies to recognize the scientific status of forensic science. As a consequence, the authors are supporting a call for its recognition as a science of its own, defined as the science of identifying and associating traces for investigative and security purposes, based o its fundamental principles and the case assesment and interpretation process that follows with its specific and relevant mode of inference.
Keywords
forensics, science, philosophy, recognition, principle, epistemology
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