Description
Book SynopsisForensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation: Activity Level Propositions and Likelihood Ratios provides all foundational information required for a reader to understand the practice of evaluating forensic biology evidence given activity level propositions and to implement the practice into active casework within a forensic institution. The book begins by explaining basic concepts and foundational theory, pulling together research and studies that have accumulated in forensic journal literature over the last 20 years.
The book explains the laws of probability - showing how they can be used to derive, from first principles, the likelihood ratio - used throughout the book to express the strength of evidence for any evaluation. Concepts such as the hierarchy of propositions, the difference between experts working in an investigative or evaluative mode and the practice of case assessment and interpretation are explained to provide the reader with a broad grounding
Table of Contents
1. Principles of Evaluation 2. Evaluation of Observations Given Activity Level Propositions 3. Transfer, Persistence, Prevalence, and Recovery of Biological Traces 4. Structuring Case Information 5. Basic Mechanisms of Evaluation 6. Fundamentals of Bayesian Networks 7. Advanced Mechanisms of Evaluation 8. Testing Robustness of Evaluation 9. Cell Type Testing 10. Reporting 11. Implementation 12. Beyond Forensic Biology 13. Looking to the Future 14. Answers to Practice Questions
