Analysis of Evidence

ISBN-13: 9780521673167 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 436 str.

Terence J. Anderson; David A. Schum; William Twinning

Opis

This extensively revised second edition covers the basic concepts and principles underlying the logic of proof; the uses and dangers of story-telling; probabilities and proof; the chart method and other methods of analyzing and ordering evidence. They are utilized in fact-investigation, preparing for trial, and in connection with other important decisions in legal processes and criminal investigation and intelligence analysis. Most of the chapters in the new edition have been rewritten; the treatment of fact investigation, probabilities and narrative has been extended; and new examples and exercises have been added.

Spis treści

1. Evidence and inference: some food for thought; 2. Fact investigation and the nature of evidence; 3. Principles of proof; 4. Methods of analysis; 5. The chart method; 6. Outlines, chronologies and narrative; 7. Analysing the decided case: anatomy of a cause célèbre; 8. Evaluating evidence; 9. Probabilities, weight and probative force; 10. Necessary but dangerous: generalizations and stories in argumentation about facts; 11. The principles of proof and the law of evidence; 12. The trial lawyer's standpoint.