Web resource:	http://socialcriminology.webs.com/JSC%202.pdf
Type:	Journal Article
Title:	Paid pipers: confronting the problems associated with experts in the justice system
Other Titles:	The Journal of Social Criminology
Authors:	Wrennall, Lynne
Keywords:	Legal issues;Child protection
Year:	2010
Publisher:	Greenhouse Press
Citation:	1 (2), Spring/Summer 2010
Notes:	The paper outlines some of the major problems that have arisen in the role of experts in the justice system, with a particular emphasis on the troubled relationship between the theories and practice of expert witnesses and Miscarriages of Justice, both false positives and false negatives. The purpose of the paper is to marshal the existing evidence, to develop a sense of the nature, scope and extent of the problems associated with expert witnesses. The evidence demonstrates that the problems associated with expert witnesses are serious and extensive. The paper concludes that expert witnesses do not legitimate the episteme claims of the justice system. On the contrary, the role of expert witnesses has been one that has demonstrated the contentiousness, partisanship and precariousness of the knowledge upon which decision- making in the justice system has been based. [? Copyright Greenhouse Press. For further information, visit The Journal of Social Criminology.]
URI:	https://anrows.intersearch.com.au/anrowsjspui/handle/1/16045
ISSN:	20092784
Appears in Collections:	Journal Articles

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