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Investigations: Under Suspicion: The Fugitive Science of Criminal Justice - Brief Article
Skeptical Inquirer, May, 2001 by Kendrick Frazier, Jodi Chapman, Robert Lopresti
Gawande, Atul. "Investigations: Under Suspicion: The Fugitive Science of Criminal Justice." The New Yorker, January 8, 2001, pp. 50-53. "The law has balked at submitting its methods to scientific inquiry," writes Gawande. Submitting the legal system to scientific scrutiny--as was done with medicine in the last century--could completely transform it.
In this article, he discusses current remedies in place that are meant to bring the criminal justice system into the scientific arena; yet, only a few police departments (most of them in Canada) have adopted these practices. So why is the legal system slow to change? According to Gawande, "the legal system rakes its methods for granted. Law enforcement.., is in thrall to a culture of precedent and convention, not of experiment and change. And science remains deeply mistrusted."
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