Legal Evidence and Proof - Statistics, Stories, Logic

List of contents

Series Editor’s Preface, List of Figures, List of Tables, Preface, General Introduction, 1 Burdens of Evidence and Proof: Why Bear Them? A Plea for Principled Opportunism in (Leaving) Legal Fact-finding (Alone), 2 The Fabrication of Facts: The Lure of the Incredible Coincidence, 3 Decision-making in the Forensic Arena, 4 Analysing Stories Using Schemes, 5 The Evaluation of Evidence: Differences between Legal Systems, 6 Inference to the Best Legal Explanation, 7 Accepting the Truth of a Story about the Facts of a Criminal Case, 8 Rigid Anarchic Principles of Evidence and Proof: Anomist Panaceas against Legal Pathologies of Proceduralism, 9 A Logical Analysis of Burdens of Proof, 10 Twelve Angry Men or One Good Woman? A symmetric Relations in Evidentiary Reasoning, Index

Summary

This study provides clarification of problems of logic and argumentation in relation to evidence and proof, presenting an important contribution to the field for both scholars and practitioners.

Product details

• Authors: Henry Kaptein Prakken
• Assisted by: Hendrik Kaptein (Editor), Henry Prakken (Editor), Prakken Henry (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.06.2019
• EAN: 9781138251960
• ISBN: 978-1-138-25196-0
• No. of pages: 302
• Series: Applied Legal Philosophy
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Law > Criminal law, criminal procedural law, criminology; LAW / Criminal Law / General, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Criminology, Criminal law & procedure, LAW / International, LAW / Jurisprudence, International Law, Jurisprudence & general issues, Crime and criminology, Crime & criminology, Jurisprudence and general issues, Criminal law: procedure and offences, Jurisprudence & Philosophy Of Law, Methods, theory and philosophy of law