Experts in court : reconciling law, science and professional knowledge / Bruce D. Sales, Daniel W. Shuman.

Washington, D.C. : American Psychological Association, 2005.

25502

Psychology, Forensic -- United States.

Forensic psychiatry -- United States.

Evidence, Expert -- United States.

1. Introduction: why expert witnesses?

2. Goals for the rules of evidence

3. Admitting expert testimony: evolution and interpretation

4. Problems in implementing the goals in the admission of experts

5. Reconciling the law of admissibility of expert testimony with the goals for the rules of evidence

6. Reconciling the behavior of experts with the goals for the rules of evidence

7. Epilogue: looking to the future

table of authority

Index

About the authors.

9781591472469

162 p.