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Title: | Forensic Facial Comparison: Issues of Admissibility in the Development of Novel Analytical Technique | Contributor(s): | Mallett, Xanthe (author); Evison, Martin (author) | Publication Date: | 2013 | DOI: | 10.1111/1556-4029.12127 | Handle Link: | https://hdl.handle.net/1959.11/12957 | Abstract: | Much contemporary debate in forensic science concerns validity and admissibility of scientific evidence in court. In this paper, three current approaches to facial identification - image superimposition, photogrammetry, and morphological analysis - are considered with regard to criteria for scientific evidence in the United States, and England, and Wales. The aim of the paper is to assess the extent to which facial image comparison meets criteria of admissibility in these jurisdictions. The method used is a comparative evaluation of the methods of facial image comparison and their underlying premises against the range of admissibility criteria reported in court rulings and relevant judicial and scientific inquiries in the United States and the United Kingdom. While the techniques of facial image comparison are generally accepted within their practitioner communities, they are not tested, and their error rates are unknown. On that basis, the methods of facial image comparison would appear not to meet the anticipated standards. They are, nevertheless, admitted in court in the United States, and England, and Wales. This paper concludes that further research in science and law will be necessary to more definitively establish admissibility of facial image comparison evidence, as it will for other nascent and novel methods that are potentially influential in court proceedings. | Publication Type: | Journal Article | Source of Publication: | Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58(4), p. 859-865 | Publisher: | Wiley-Blackwell Publishing, Inc | Place of Publication: | United States of America | ISSN: | 1556-4029 0022-1198 |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2008: | 160199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified 180122 Legal Theory, Jurisprudence and Legal Interpretation |
Fields of Research (FoR) 2020: | 440199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified 480404 Law and religion |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2008: | 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified 940499 Justice and the Law not elsewhere classified |
Socio-Economic Objective (SEO) 2020: | 139999 Other culture and society not elsewhere classified 230499 Justice and the law not elsewhere classified |
Peer Reviewed: | Yes | HERDC Category Description: | C1 Refereed Article in a Scholarly Journal |
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