Forensic Science in Criminal Courts

President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology. (2016). Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods.

Type

Report

Intellectual base

Grey literature

Year

2016

Link

https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/microsites/ostp/PCAST/pcast_forensic_science_report_final.pdf

Cited by

2 citations across 2 artifacts.

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Mechanisms

• Blind Proficiency Test
  • The push for empirically measured error rates and appropriate proficiency testing of feature-comparison methods was a central recommendation of the 2016 PCAST report on forensic science.
• Toolmark Comparison Protocol
  • National scientific reviews have sharply questioned these certainty claims

    This sourceReports national scientific criticism of categorical certainty and exclusion-of-all-other-sources claims in feature-comparison forensics, including firearms/toolmark analysis.

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