Personnel Selection in the Pattern Evidence Domain of Forensic Science Proceedings of a Workshop (2017) / Chapter Skim
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4 Other Considerations and Next Steps
4 Other Considerations and Next Steps
Pages 37-44
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However, the job of a pattern evidence examiner is not just analyzing evidence; it sometimes entails reporting findings to end users, such as lawyers and judges. UNDERSTANDING EXPERT TESTIMONY The workshop steering committee included presentations on how expert testimony is treated in the courtroom in order to better understand what preparation pattern evidence examiners need.
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A pattern evidence examiner asked to review evidence in the courtroom will be expected to communicate clearly the information judges and attorneys need to make good decisions and effectively represent their clients. Schechter pointed out that the nature of forensic testimonies and the culture within forensic laboratories have been in the process of changing over the last 5 years or so.
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Murrie referred to a 2009 report from the National Research Council1 that highlighted the vulnerability to certain cognitive and contextual biases and to studies by Itiel Dror that show contextual information (e.g., knowledge of a confession) can influence expert opinions.2 He emphasized the importance of understanding that bias is not an ethical issue.
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She recognized that workshop presenters had illustrated uneven budgets, where at times there are appropriate resources to hire a new cohort of forensic examiners and at other times hiring is put on hold. There is also the influence of the civil service environment and restrictions that can impose long waits in the hiring process.
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for a sum mary report on the job of forensic science technician with the tasks to collect, identify, classify, and analyze physical evidence related to criminal investigations. Other related job titles include crime laboratory analyst, crime scene analyst, crime scene technician, crime scene investigator, evidence technician, forensic science examiner, forensic scientist, forensic specialist, latent fingerprint examiner, and latent print examiner.
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She was optimistic that it would be possible to validate some of the research presented at the workshop for selection purposes. Predictors of performance that already exist, like the form blindness test, could stand up to the scrutiny of the courts and be defensible as job relevant and consistent with business necessity if a formal validation study was conducted.
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• Benefits of validated selection practices and assessments can include improved job performance, reduced turnover, reduced training costs, en hanced legal defensibility, etc. • Some tests, like the form blindness test, show promise in detecting po tential performance on visual tasks.
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