The Sally Clark case was notorious for the prosecution’s misuse of statistics in respect of Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS). In particular, the claim made by Roy Meadows at the original trial – that there was “only 1 in 73 million chance of both children being SIDS victims” – has been thoroughly, and rightly, discredited. However, as made clear by probability experts who analysed the case, ...

OBJECTIVES To identify the factors that influence the assessment of reported cases of physician-assisted death by members of the public prosecution. DESIGN/SETTING At the beginning of 1996, during verbal interviews, 12 short case-descriptions were presented to a representative group of 47 members of the public prosecution in the Netherlands. RESULTS Assessment varied considerably between re...

The influence that injury and hospitalization from alcohol-related motor vehicle crashes may have on subsequent prosecution for drunk driving was studied utilizing concurrent controls consisting of three cohorts of drivers. The cohorts were drunk and injured drivers, drunk and not injured drivers, and sober and injured drivers. Even though the majority of intoxicated drivers were identified by ...

With increased access to computers across the world, cybercrime is becoming a major challenge to law enforcement agencies. Cybercrime investigation in India is in its infancy and there has been limited success in prosecuting the offenders; therefore, a need to understand and strengthen the existing investigation methods and systems for controlling cybercrimes is greatly needed. This study ident...

The identification and prosecution of scientific misconduct in research and publishing is a problem and a priority for every Journal. Issues related to financial conflicts, “paper splitting”, simultaneous submission to more than one journal, the assignment of authorship ranks, and, importantly, scientific fraud and plagiarism need to be fully addressed. Reviewers, editors and readers are the fi...

The Serious Fraud Office investigates and prosecutes fraud, nothing else. As is the case in many countries, the United Kingdom has a number of organisations that investigate or prosecute criminal conduct. Indeed, there are many organisations in the United Kingdom that investigate or prosecute fraud. However, for the vast majority of these organisations, the investigation or prosecution of fraud...