ESTABLISHING THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF A SMALL QUANTITY OF MATERIAL FOUND AT A CRIME SCENE

Authors
Citation
Iw. Evett, ESTABLISHING THE EVIDENTIAL VALUE OF A SMALL QUANTITY OF MATERIAL FOUND AT A CRIME SCENE, Journal - Forensic Science Society, 33(2), 1993, pp. 83-86
Citations number
5
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
ISSN journal
00157368
Volume
33
Issue
2
Year of publication
1993
Pages
83 - 86
Database
ISI
SICI code
0015-7368(1993)33:2<83:ETEVOA>2.0.ZU;2-U
Abstract
Treatments of the interpretation of trace evidence found at a crime sc ene normally start with the assumptions that the evidence is relevant, in the sense that it must have been left by the offender, and that th ere is no possibility that the evidence could have come from the suspe ct by purely innocent means. As the sensitivity of forensic techniques increases, there will be a tendency to use them in cases where one or both of these two assumptions are dubious. This paper shows how the t heory of transfer evidence can be used to understand the interpretatio n of such cases.