法庭科学实践教学探索

法庭科学是以科学技术手段确认相关法律事实的证据,是诉讼活动与科学技术密切结合的产物。在社会法制化程度日趋提高的今天,法庭科学已经成为法学专业培养高级人才不可缺少的一门重要学科。由于法庭科学具有自然科学的属性,专业性、实践性很强,针对缺少法庭科学前期基础的法学学生而言,采用实验及多媒体组合等多种实践教学模式不仅能够缩短教学时间、提高教学效率,突破教学的重点和难点,保证教学质量,而且能够充分发挥学生学习的主动性,极大地促进其能力的培养和综合素质的提高。本文通过对法庭科学人才素质培养目标的论证,阐述了法庭科学实践教学的主要模式及必备的条件,并结合现阶段法庭科学实践教学中存在的主要问题,有针对性地提出了相关的完善措施。     

How to Improve Forensic Science

Some institutional structures for inquiry produce better approximations to truth than others. The current institutional structure of police forensics gives each lab a monopoly in the analysis of the police evidence it receives. Forensic workers have inadequate incentives to produce reliable analyses of police evidence. Competition would create such incentives. I outline a system of “competitive self regulation” for police forensics.Each jurisdiction would have several competing forensic labs. Evidence would be divided and sent to one, two, or three separate labs.Chance would determine which labs and how many would receive evidence to analyze.Competitive selfregulation improves forensics by creating incentives for error detection and reducing incentives to produce biased analyses. JEL Classification: K14, K42, H11     

司法鉴定将有新标准可循——来自司法鉴定标准专题研讨会的报道

初冬,中国的东北和西北大地都已大雪纷冰,冰封千里,上海却风和日丽,胜似春光。11月13日至15日,来自全国各地的司法鉴定界专家,汇聚在苏州河畔圣约翰大学原址上建立的华东政法学院古建筑交谊楼,以科学的态度,认真负责地讨论、审议着司法鉴定相关专业的15个标准文本。这次研讨会是由司法部司法鉴定管理局主办的,承办单位是司法部司法鉴定科学技术研究所(下称“部司鉴所”)。会议由部司鉴所沈敏所长主持,她向大家一一介绍了来自北京、长春、西安、成都、武汉、广州、上海等地的25位专家。接着她说,《决定》实施一周年来,随着司法鉴定管理体制的…