In the News
The importance of CCI's work has been recognized by the media in television, newspapers and magazines (including in the UK, USA, Canada, the Netherlands, Denmark, Israel, and Australia).
Coverage includes:
· The Dominion Post, New Zealand, "How Effective Are Expert Witnesses?" 18 December 2012.
· The Guardian/The Observer, "DNA Analysis is Far From an Open-and-Shut Case: Forensic Evidence is Widely Considered to be the Result of Purely Objective Lab Tests, But There's Growing Proof That Psychological Bias Plays a Part" 14 October 2012.
· The Washington Post, "Forensic Techniques Are Subject to Human Bias, Lack Standards, Panel Found," 18 April 2012.
· PBS 'Frontline' TV (USA), "The Real CSI" 17 April 2012, and "Can Unconscious Bias Undermine Fingerprint Analysis?" 16 April 2012.
· The Life Scientific, BBC 4, 27 March 2012.
· New Scientist, "Forensic Science Special Report: Miscarriages of Justice will Occur" 11 February 2012.
· The Economist, "Ignorance is Bliss" 21 January 2012.
· New Scientist, "Miscarriage of Justice Points to Fingerprint Flaws" 20 December 2011.
· BBC 4 documentary, "Fingerprints on Trial" 10 March 2011.
· The Telegraph, "Fingerprint Identification Evidence Questioned by Senior Judge" 19 November 2010.
· All in the Mind, BBC 4, "The Psychology of Forensic Fingerprinting" 16 & 17 November 2010.
· Daily Mail, "DNA Fingerprinting Techniques Can Sometimes Give the Wrong Results" 12 August 2010.
· New Scientist, "Fallible DNA Evidence" 11 August 2010.
· Nature, "Science in Court: The Fine Print" 18 March 2010 (pages 344-346, Vol. 464).
· New Scientist, "Fingerprint Evidence to Harden Up at Last" 17 March 2010.
· The Washington Post, Associated Press, The Capital, Washington Examiner, The Herald-Mail, and other newspapers, "Reject expanding evidence for death penalty cases", "More evidence may be allowed in death penalty cases", etc., 10-12 March 2010.
· The New Yorker, "Trial by Fire: Did Texas Execute an Innocent Man?" 7 September 2009.
· The New York Times, "Plugging Holes in the Science of Forensics" 12 May 2009.
· The New York Post, "A New Report Forces Police And Judges To Rethink Forensic Science" 7 March 2009.
· Laptop Magazine, "Technology And Cognition" 25 November 2008.
· Computing Magazine, "Are We Learning From IT?" 28 October 2008.
· The New York Times, "Bad Science in the Court" 14 August 2008.
· The London Times, "Forensic bias" 10 June 2008.
See also BBC’s Newsnight interview with Dr. Dror on expert decision making of forensic examiners.
See also list of projects and events.
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