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University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Gatekeeping and the Judicial Processing of Scientific Information
Abstract
dc:descriptionJudicial gatekeeping decisions validate science for legal (political) purposes. Differential treatment by state jurisdictions has created an empirical puzzle whereby state jurisdictions vary in their validation of scientific information. The goal of this investigation is to explain the legal and political conditions under which novel scientific evidence is accepted or rejected. Variance in validation patterns for DNA, polygraphs, and syndrome evidence among state supreme courts is analyzed for the purpose of measuring the role of legal, attitudinal, institutional, and organizational variables in judicial gatekeeping decisions.
Degree
thesis:*- Name thesis:degree_name
- Ph.D.
- Level thesis:degree_level
- Dissertation
- Discipline thesis:degree_discipline
- Political Science
- Grantor
- University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Year dc:date
- 2015
Author and committee
dc:creator, dc:contributor.*- Author dc:creator
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- Harris, Rebecca C.
- Contributors dc:contributor
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- Ira Carmen
Subjects
dc:subject × 1Rights
- Language dc:language
- eng
Identifiers
dc:identifier.*- Identifier
- (MiAaPQ)AAI3223612
- OAI identifier oai:identifier
- oai:www.ideals.illinois.edu:2142/82570