Fitting Science Into Legal Contexts: Assessing Effects of Causes or Causes of Effects?

Sociological Methods and Research

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 359-390

  Dawid, A Philip ^a   Faigman, David L ^b   Fienberg, Stephen E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

causes of effects; effects of causes; evidence; expert; law

Indexed keywords

EID: 84906053410     PISSN: 00491241     EISSN: 15528294     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0049124113515188     Document Type: Article

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