Criminal Justice Scholars as Expert Witness - A Descriptive Analysis

• NCJ Number: 97919
• Journal: Journal of Criminal Justice Volume: 13 Issue: 3 Dated: (1985) Pages: 279-289
• Author(s): L T Winfree; P R Anderson
• Date Published: 1985
• Length: 11 pages
• Publication Format: Article
• Language: English
• Country: United States of America
• Note: Earlier version presented at the 1983 annual meeting of the American Society of Criminology.

Annotation

The courtroom activities of criminal justice scholars represent an area of study that, with the exception of a few first-person narratives, has been largely ignored in the past. This paper, in an attempt to expand our knowledge of such activities, analyzes data collected from a group of criminal justice scholars who were singled out by their colleagues for a work as expert witnesses.

Abstract

Due to an apparent dearth of information on such activities, the analyses are largely descriptive in nature, comparing the key features of expert witnesses (e.g., purposes of involvement, fees charged, willingness to testify in local community) with personal-biographical information. It is concluded that experience as an expert witness is central to any understanding of the role of the expert witness. (Author abstract)