Dead Reckoning - Nordby, Jon J.
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Analytical tools are often insufficient for crime solving. This book teaches investigators how to apply logic to crime scenes using crime reconstruction, disciplined observation, careful reason and experience. Dead Reckoning: The Art of Forensic Logic examines the applications of logic and science to decipher chaotic death scenes and difficult cases, and to derive orderly explanations from their jumbled clues. The 10 case studies in this book illustrate the powers of observation exercised in reading the signs, identifying them as clues, and reasoning from them to the best explanation.…mehr

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Analytical tools are often insufficient for crime solving. This book teaches investigators how to apply logic to crime scenes using crime reconstruction, disciplined observation, careful reason and experience. Dead Reckoning: The Art of Forensic Logic examines the applications of logic and science to decipher chaotic death scenes and difficult cases, and to derive orderly explanations from their jumbled clues. The 10 case studies in this book illustrate the powers of observation exercised in reading the signs, identifying them as clues, and reasoning from them to the best explanation. TOC:Acknowledgements.- Dedication.- Introduction.- The Art of Detection: Rhymes of Ancient Mariners.- Method - The Andrews Case: Reasoning Backward Analytically.- Signs - The Duffy Case: Reading Signs.- Chance - The Davenport Case: Probability and Serendipity.- Elimination - The Homberg Case: Inductivism, Best Explanations, and Testing Alternatives.- Explanation - The Majcher Case: Natural Signs and Statistical Inferences.- Diagnosis - The Ridgeley Case: Natural Signs and Logics of Discovery.- Confirmation - The Selsner-Martin Case: Logical Testing.- Proof - The Melrow Case: Causal Explanation and Formal Deduction.- Error - The Baby Belden Case: Fallacious Appeals to Medical Authority.- Disagreement - The Darcy Case: An Open Verdict: Opinion, Uncertainty, and Conflicting Conclusions.- Annotated Bibliography.- Index.
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Jon J. Nordby Ph.D.