Convictions Without Truth: The Incompatibility of Science and Law

ISBN-13: 9781032208657 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022 / 86 str.

Robert Schehr

Opis

Convictions Without Truth sets out to determine whether and to what extent science and law may coexist in an institutional relationship that truthfully generates individualization through application of forensic testimony for charges relating to violations of criminal law.

O autorze

Robert Schehr is Professor in the Department of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Northern Arizona University, USA. His research expertise and publications focus on Wrongful Conviction, Political Economy of Law and Order, and the Jurisprudence of Plea Bargaining. He is an international speaker on the topic of Wrongful Conviction. Professor Schehr received a PhD in Sociology from Purdue University in 1991, a post-doctoral post at the University of Georgia, and has held positions at Colgate University, and the University of Illinois at Springfield. Dr. Schehr has been a United States Fulbright Scholar, where he taught at both Griffith College Law School and Trinity College Law School, Ireland. Currently he is undertaking a Masters in the Study of Law at Yale University.