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课程名称：挑战法医科学：科学如何在法庭上发声 课程概述：本课程旨在提升学员对法医科学的批判性思维。一般来说，人们常常被法医科学技术的可能性所迷惑，认为法医证据是无懈可击的，能够提供100%确定的事实依据。该课程由该领域的专家提供，超越了电视剧如《CSI》中所传播的传统形象，提醒公众法医技术的局限性，以促进在刑事司法系统中良好的法医科学管理。课程允许参与者理解概率推理在法医科学中的重要性，因为不确定性是法医科学的基本组成部分。课程内容围绕一系列著名案件展开，这些案件可能导致冤假错案，其中一些案例已在洛桑大学刑事司法学院进行复审。 课程大纲： 第一周 - 优秀法医报告的“DNA”是什么？ 简介课程背景，介绍讲师和课程目标，介绍法医报告撰写的ENFSI指导原则。 第二周 - 源头不是活动！ 分析DNA和枪击残留物（GSR）证据的案件，探讨法医证据的实际情况和层次性。 第三周 - DNA并不是魔法子弹 根据国际案例（如Knox、Jama、Anderson和Scott），考虑小量DNA的价值评估，强调污染和误差的可能性。 第四周 - 数字的审判或审判的数字 探讨法医科学家如何传达结果的价值，学习著名案件统计数据的误用，以及谬论推理的影响。 第五周 - 确定性的奇幻世界 介绍耳印和指纹案例，解释法医科学家在识别过程中的责任，突出错误识别的可能性及其影响。 通过本课程，参与者将全面理解法医科学证据的复杂性及其在司法过程中的应用，培养更加成熟和批判的思维方式。
Name:Week 1 - What is the "DNA" of a good forensic report ?
Description:This first week will set the scene for the course. You will meet the instructors; learn about their background, teaching, research and casework activities. The School of Criminal Justice (University of Lausanne) will be shortly presented through a virtual visit, followed by the course objectives. The recent ENFSI guideline for evaluative reporting, used throughout the course, will be presented. ENFSI stands for the set of the good principles for writing forensic reports to be used in a court of law. The whole course aims at contrasting the practice as observed in notorious cases with the good practice promoted by the ENFSI guideline. Hence, we will start by setting out some reporting criteria that are essential to bring reliable evidence in court and explain the principles of interpretation (based on the concept of likelihood ratio) that should govern the production of any forensic evidence. The application of these principles leads to a defined way whereby the forensic scientist is entitled to speak to court.
Name:Week 2 - Elementary: source is not activity !
Description:There is a general misconception that a piece of forensic evidence is sufficient to clinch the outcome of a case. This module aims at showing that the reality is more subtle and is intrinsically linked to the concept of hierarchy of propositions. Cases based on DNA and gunshot residue (GSR) evidence will be analysed and discussed. First, through the Weller case we will demonstrate the DNA findings providing information towards the source of the DNA may not be at the core of the issue in the case. More and more the source of the DNA is not challenged, but how the DNA got there is.
Name:Week 3 - DNA is not the magic bullet
Description:Based on international cases (Knox, Jama, Anderson and Scott) we will illustrate the potentials aspects that one needs to consider when assessing the value of DNA found in small quantity. You will be shown how one performs DNA analysis and what type of results can be produced. We will apply the ENFSI and the ISFG guidelines for evaluative reporting in the case at hand and see if the principles advocated allow avoiding misleading evidence. We will compare the situations where large quantities of blood are found to cases where low template DNA is recovered. You will learn to contrast these two situations and discover what type of results can be expected and what methods allow a balanced and robust interpretation. This first part of the course will demonstrate that very sensitive techniques require robust interpretation methods. In the second part of the course, you will understand that with trace quantities, stringent control procedures are needed on the crime scene and in the laboratory. Indeed, pollution (or so-called contamination) is an aspect one needs to take into account. Cases (for example in Australia, the USA and England) have shown that the traces from the crime scene can be polluted at the hospital, by paramedics or in the laboratory. It is thus essential to consider this possibility, especially when DNA is the central (and only) element supporting the allegation of a person’s involvement in a crime. How to take into consideration the possibility of error/contamination when assessing the results will be presented.
Name:Week 4 - Trials by Numbers or Numbers on Trial
Description:This week will be dedicated to how forensic scientists should convey the value of their results. From our white room dedicated to photography, we will study famous cases - including the Dreyfus case- and see how statistics can be misused. It will allow us to discuss how statistical values ought to be presented in court. A statistician (Phil Dawid) and a legal scholar (David Kaye) will be interviewed. The second essential topic we will present will be on fallacious reasoning, and in particular on what has been coined, more than thirty years ago, the prosecutors fallacy. Bill Thompson, the first to have described this fallacious argument used in court will be another of our guest interviewees.
Name:Week 5: The wonderland of certainty
Description:This week will be present the Dallagher case involving earprints, the Mayfield and the McKie cases involving fingerprints. We want to make you understand what is at stake when an expert decides to conclude to an identification. You will understand through this week that identification is not the duty of the forensic scientist and that it is a decision that must be taken by the Court. We also want to highlight the possible causes for wrong identification. And yes they do occur, even with fingerprints! We will have the privilege to listen to interviews of persons closely involved in these cases: The father of Shirley McKie as well as Brandon Mayfield and her daughter Sharia.
The aim of this course is to promote critical thinking with regard to forensic science. Today, in general, most people are dazzled by the technical possibilities offered by forensic science. They somewhat live in the illusion that forensic evidence is fool proof and brings factual findings with 100% certainty. This course – given by specialists in the field – goes beyond the conventional image that is promoted through TV series such as CSI. It alerts (without alarming) the public on the limits of the techniques in order to promote a sound administration of forensic science in the criminal justice system. It allows participants to understand the importance of probabilistic reasoning in forensic science, because uncertainty is a constitutive part of forensic science. The course is constructed as a series of causes célèbres that could or have led to miscarriages of justice. Some of these cases have been part of case reviews carried out at the School of Criminal Justice of the University of Lausanne. ****************** Special thanks to our translators, in particular the University of Lausanne and the School of Criminal Justice sincerely thank Massimiliano Stabile (forensic biologist), Francesco Zampa (forensic chemist) and Giampietro Lago (forensic biologist) for the Italian translation of the course.
