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Scientific and expert evidence in criminal advocacy
CURRENT
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PUBLICATION
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including forcing criminals to make restitution to their victims. dealing with court delays. and “making judges and parole boards pay for their softness.” The appendix contains an article on the permissiveness shown criminals. and an index is included.
Scientific Arnold.
and Expert
Practising Law Institute - $25.00.
Evidence
in Criminal
Advocacy
edited by Juris G. Cederbaums
and Selma
(810 Seventh Avenue, New York. N.Y. 10019), 1975. 537 pp.. hardcover
Cederbaums is presently assigned to the Homocide Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s office, and Arnold is managing editor of the Practising Law Institute; both editors are also attorneys. This volume represents a collection of technical and scientific articles on subjects most frequently needed by criminal attorneys. The book is divided into seventeen chapters. The first four deal with the use of scientific testimony and serve as a frame of reference for the other. more specialized articles: topics covered include the use of scientific evidence. pitfalls in handling scientific evidence. the autopsy. and forensic pathology. Chapters 5 and 6 discuss the proper use of a psychiatric expert and the psychiatric evaluation for legal purposes. The ballistics investigator, the detection of gunshot residue and merits of forensic activation analysis are the topics of the following three chapters. Chapters 10 through 17 discuss polygraph testimony, voice identification. and voiceprints. and the next two chapters deal with drug testing procedures and the preparation and trial of a drunken driving case involving a breathalyzer. Wiretapping and electronic surveillance are covered in Chapter 15, and the last two chapters are concerned with accounting testimony in tax frauds and cross examination of the government’s tax expert. The three appendices contain a bibliography. a list of voiceprint appellate cases, and an outline of emerging constitutional issues in law and psychiatry.
Crime and Criminal Justice edited by John A. Gardiner Lexington Books (DC. hardcover ~ S 14.50.
Health and Company.
and Michael A. Mulkey.
Lexington.
Massachusetts
02173).
1975, 211 pp..
Gardiner is with the University of Illinois and Mulkey is with the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. The goal of this book. according to the editors. is to “provide a survey of the fundamental issues that must be addressed in any analysis of the policies which consciously or unconsciously - govern crime and criminal justice policy in America.” The book is divided into two parts: definitional problems in policy analysis and the goals of crime policy, and participants in crime and criminal justice policy making. In Part I, the basic issues involved in undertaking policy analysis and assessing crime policy are addressed. Topics covered in these chapters include crime and criminologists: political theory. policy analysis. and the insoluble problems of crime: sources and limitations of data in criminal justice research: public policy and public evaluations of criminal justice system performance: political issues m labeling: policy issues in organized crime and white-collar crime: and flexibility and uniformity in criminal justice. In Part II the focus shifts to the participants in policy making and the major policy issues currently confronting them. Discussions within this section include public participation in the
86
PUBLICATION
ABSTRACTS
including forcing criminals to make restitution to their victims. dealing with court delays. and “making judges and parole boards pay for their softness.” The appendix contains an article on the permissiveness shown criminals. and an index is included.
Scientific Arnold.
and Expert
Practising Law Institute - $25.00.
Evidence
in Criminal
Advocacy
edited by Juris G. Cederbaums
and Selma
(810 Seventh Avenue, New York. N.Y. 10019), 1975. 537 pp.. hardcover
Cederbaums is presently assigned to the Homocide Bureau of the New York County District Attorney’s office, and Arnold is managing editor of the Practising Law Institute; both editors are also attorneys. This volume represents a collection of technical and scientific articles on subjects most frequently needed by criminal attorneys. The book is divided into seventeen chapters. The first four deal with the use of scientific testimony and serve as a frame of reference for the other. more specialized articles: topics covered include the use of scientific evidence. pitfalls in handling scientific evidence. the autopsy. and forensic pathology. Chapters 5 and 6 discuss the proper use of a psychiatric expert and the psychiatric evaluation for legal purposes. The ballistics investigator, the detection of gunshot residue and merits of forensic activation analysis are the topics of the following three chapters. Chapters 10 through 17 discuss polygraph testimony, voice identification. and voiceprints. and the next two chapters deal with drug testing procedures and the preparation and trial of a drunken driving case involving a breathalyzer. Wiretapping and electronic surveillance are covered in Chapter 15, and the last two chapters are concerned with accounting testimony in tax frauds and cross examination of the government’s tax expert. The three appendices contain a bibliography. a list of voiceprint appellate cases, and an outline of emerging constitutional issues in law and psychiatry.
Crime and Criminal Justice edited by John A. Gardiner Lexington Books (DC. hardcover ~ S 14.50.
Health and Company.
and Michael A. Mulkey.
Lexington.
Massachusetts
02173).
1975, 211 pp..
Gardiner is with the University of Illinois and Mulkey is with the National Institute of Law Enforcement and Criminal Justice. The goal of this book. according to the editors. is to “provide a survey of the fundamental issues that must be addressed in any analysis of the policies which consciously or unconsciously - govern crime and criminal justice policy in America.” The book is divided into two parts: definitional problems in policy analysis and the goals of crime policy, and participants in crime and criminal justice policy making. In Part I, the basic issues involved in undertaking policy analysis and assessing crime policy are addressed. Topics covered in these chapters include crime and criminologists: political theory. policy analysis. and the insoluble problems of crime: sources and limitations of data in criminal justice research: public policy and public evaluations of criminal justice system performance: political issues m labeling: policy issues in organized crime and white-collar crime: and flexibility and uniformity in criminal justice. In Part II the focus shifts to the participants in policy making and the major policy issues currently confronting them. Discussions within this section include public participation in the