Down by Science: Context and Commitment in The Lay Response to Incriminating Scientific Evidence During a Murder Trial  

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Edmond, Gary

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Public Understanding of Science vol. 7 no. 2 (Apr. 1998), page 83-111.
Fulltext: 83PUS72.pdf (155.49KB)

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This paper explores responses to scientific evidence from a lay person accused of murder. These responses are examined with reference to the specific (here legal) contexts in which they were offered. This paper will provide some analysis of the motivations or goals behind some particular lay understandings of scientific evidence, and the function which representations of these understandings were designed to fulfill as the accused attempted to prove her innocence. The specific contexts will be seen to influence the shaping and configuring of scientific knowledge as well as the manner in which various audiences attend to that knowledge and its perceived implications. The discussion will also raise the appropriateness of maintaining a rigid dichotomy between lay and expert knowledges. In conclusion I will emphasize the importance of a more symmetrical and sociologically informed analysis of both expert and lay approaches to scientific knowledge.

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