Practicing Forensic Criminology
Front Cover -- Practicing Forensic Criminology -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Chapter 1: Introduction to the Practice of Forensic Criminology -- Introduction -- Goals and Objectives -- Roles of the Practicing Forensic Criminologist in the U.S. Court System -- Legal Backdrop and the Civil Litigation Process -- Heterogeneity of Roles and Tasks of Forensic Criminologists -- Criminalistics and Forensic Criminology -- Place, Time, and Environmental Criminology -- Plan of the Book -- Chapter 2: Criminology on Trial: Science, Law, and the Admissibility of Expert Testimony -- Introduction -- Adversary and Ally: Interactions of Law and Science in Expert Testimony -- Rules Regarding the Legal Admissibility of Expert Testimony -- Setting the Standards for Expert Testimony: The Significance of the Daubert Trilogy -- Lessons of the Daubert Trilogy -- Candor, Objectivity, and Ethics in Expert Testimony -- Conclusions: As Criminology Meets the Forensic Realm -- Chapter 3: Premises Liability for Negligent Security Litigation -- Introduction -- Establishing a Duty of Care: The Historical Development of Negligent Security Litigation -- Foreseeability Approaches to Negligent Security Claims -- Imminent Danger/Harm Test -- Prior Similar Incidents: History Is More Important Than Imminence -- Totality of Circumstances Test -- Balancing Test -- Breach of Duty and Standards of Care -- Causation: Cause-in-Fact and Proximate Causation -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4: Apartment Security I: Measuring and Analyzing Crime Foreseeability -- Introduction -- Home, Security, and Multifamily Housing -- Apartment Security and Crime Foreseeability -- Nature of the Neighborhood: Foreseeability of Crime by Place -- Collecting and Analyzing Crime Data -- National Law Enforcement Records -- Local Law Enforcement Records -- Additional Sources -- Other Considerations.