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Confirmation Bias in Criminal Cases takes a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing confirmation bias among criminal justice practitioners, combining criminal law, psychology, criminology, medicine, and anthropology. The book analyses case studies from international jurisdictions and utilizes a research-based approach to confirmation bias.
List of contents
- 1: Introduction
- 2: Confirmation Bias
- 3: Confirmation Bias in Criminal Investigations
- 4: Confirmation Bias in Criminal Litigations
- 5: Overall Summary and Conclusion
- Bibliography
About the author
Moa Lidén is a Post Doc Researcher, funded by The Swedish Research Council and Ragnar Söderberg Foundation, at the Department of Security and Crime Science, University College London and the Law Faculty, Uppsala University. She holds a dual degree in Law and Psychology. Her PhD thesis was about confirmation bias primarily in the Swedish context, evaluating the prevalence of this bias as well as potential debiasing techniques in Swedish police officers, prosecutors and judges. She defended her thesis in Contemporary Jurisprudence in 2018 at the Law Faculty, Uppsala University. Since then she has been focusing on her post doc project "Reliability and Biasability of Criminal Evidence" which addresses human sources of error, including bias, in multiple types of criminal evidence.
Summary
Confirmation Bias in Criminal Cases takes a multi-disciplinary approach to assessing confirmation bias among criminal justice practitioners, combining criminal law, psychology, criminology, medicine, and anthropology. The book analyses case studies from international jurisdictions and utilizes a research-based approach to confirmation bias.
