Theme 3: Strength of Forensic Evidence

Chair: Franco Taroni
Co chair: Charles Berger/Marjan Sjerps

This theme covers the following topics:

• Methodological aspects of evidence interpretation, e.g.: combining evidence, context bias, causality, decision theory perspective, use of Bayesian networks;
• Statistical aspects of evidence evaluation, e.g.: quantifying and reporting evidential strength, validating Likelihood Ratio methods, dealing with measurement uncertainty, sampling issues;
• Communication, e.g.: reporting evidence, consultancy skills of forensic statisticians, teaching evidence interpretation;
• Studies of cases in which some of the above issues, or strongly related issues, featured prominently;
• Cross-fertilisation: applications of forensic evidence interpretation in non-forensic fields, and the use of probabilistic methods used in other fields for forensic science

The intended audience will know the basic principles of evidence interpretation and statistics but have a mixed background otherwise. Posters may be highly advanced/specialised. Contributions present new views, practical problems, or set out lines of future research.