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    Forensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation: Activity Level Propositions and Likelihood Ratios

    Forensic DNA Trace Evidence Interpretation by Taylor, Duncan; Kokshoorn, Bas;

    Activity Level Propositions and Likelihood Ratios

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    Product details:

    • Edition number 1
    • Publisher CRC Press
    • Date of Publication 30 May 2023

    • ISBN 9781032225821
    • Binding Hardback
    • No. of pages582 pages
    • Size 254x178 mm
    • Weight 1480 g
    • Language English
    • Illustrations 72 Illustrations, black & white; 123 Illustrations, color; 3 Halftones, black & white; 13 Halftones, color; 69 Line drawings, black & white; 110 Line drawings, color; 109 Tables, black & white
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    Short description:

    Provides all concepts and foundational information required 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.

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    Forensic 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 in the topics that are important to understanding evaluation of evidence. Activity level evaluations are discussed in relation to biological material transferred from one object to another, the ability for biological material to persist on an item for a period of time or through an event, the ability to recover the biological material from the object when sampled for forensic testing and the expectations of the prevalence of biological material on objects in our environment. These concepts of transfer, persistence, prevalence and recovery are discussed in detail in addition to the factors that affect each of them.


    The authors go on to explain the evaluation process: how to structure case information and formulate propositions. This includes how a likelihood ratio formula can be derived to evaluate the forensic findings, introducing Bayesian networks and explaining what they represent and how they can be used in evaluations and showing how evaluation can be tested for robustness. Using these tools, the authors also demonstrate the ways that the methods used in activity level evaluations are applied to questions about body fluids. There are also chapters dedicated to reporting of results and implementation of activity level evaluation in a working forensic laboratory. Throughout the book, four cases are used as examples to demonstrate how to relate the theory to practice and detail how laboratories can integrate and implement activity level evaluation into their active casework.

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    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

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    Taylor, Duncan; Kokshoorn, Bas;

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