Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence A Formal Hybrid Theory
In this book a theory of reasoning with evidence in the context of criminal cases is developed. The main subject of this study is not the law of evidence but rather the rational process of proof, which involves constructing, testing and justifying scenari
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Law and Philosophy Library VOLUME 92
Series Editors: FRANCISCO J. LAPORTA, Department of Law, Autonomous University of Madrid, Spain FREDERICK SCHAUER, School of Law, University of Virginia, U.S.A. TORBEN SPAAK, Uppsala University, Sweden Former Series Editors: AULIS AARNIO, MICHAEL D. BAYLES† , CONRAD D. JOHNSON† , ALAN MABE, ALEKSANDER PECZENIK† Editorial Advisory Board: AULIS AARNIO, Secretary General of the Tampere Club, Finland HUMBERTO ÁVILA, Federal University of South Brazil, Brazil ZENON BANKOWSKI, Centre for Law and Society, University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom PAOLO COMANDUCCI, University of Genoa, Italy HUGH CORDER, University of Cape Town, South Africa DAVID DYZENHAUS, University of Toronto, Canada ERNESTO GARZÓN VALDÉS, Institut für Politikwissenschaft, Johannes Gutenberg Universitat, Mainz, Germany RICCARDO GUASTINI, University of Genoa, Italy JOHN KLEINIG, Department of Law, Police Science and Criminal Justice Administration, John Jay College of Criminal Justice, City University of New York, U.S.A. PATRICIA MINDUS, Università Degli Studi di Torino, Italy YASUTOMO MORIGIWA, Nagoya University, Japan and University of Edinburgh, United Kingdom GIOVANNI BATTISTA RATTI, “Juan de la Cierva” Fellow in Law, Faculty of Law, University of Girona, Spain WOJCIECH SADURSKI, European University Institute, Department of Law, Florence, Italy HORACIO SPECTOR, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, Argentina ROBERT S. SUMMERS, School of Law, Cornell University, U.S.A. MICHEL TROPER, Membre de l’Institut Universitaire de France, France CARL WELLMAN, Department of Philosophy, Washington University, U.S.A. For further volumes: http://www.springer.com/series/6210
ARGUMENTS, STORIES AND CRIMINAL EVIDENCE A Formal Hybrid Theory
by Floris J. Bex University of Dundee, UK
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Floris J. Bex University of Dundee School of Computing DD1 4HN Dundee United Kingdom [email protected]
ISSN 1572-4395 ISBN 978-94-007-0139-7 e-ISBN 978-94-007-0140-3 DOI 10.1007/978-94-007-0140-3 Springer Dordrecht Heidelberg London New York Library of Congress Control Number: 2010938619 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2011 No part of this work may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, microfilming, recording or otherwise, without written permission from the Publisher, with the exception of any material supplied specifically for the purpose of being entered and executed on a computer system, for exclusive use by the purchaser of the work. Printed on acid-free paper Springer is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
This book is based on my 2009 Doctoral dissertation “Evidence for a Good Story – A Hybrid Theory of Arguments, Stories and Criminal Evidence”. This dissertation was written while working on the project Making Sense of Evidence, in which a theoretically sound sense-making and visualization tool for Dutch police analysts has been developed. During the project I worked at the Centre for Law and ICT at the University
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