Those in power merit forensic, unrelenting scrutiny.
Locke famously called "person" a forensic term, "appropriating actions and their merit; and so belongs only to intelligent agents capable of a law, and happiness, and misery" (Locke 1694, 50 51).
The report calls into question the scientific merit of virtually every commonly used forensic method, including analysis of fingerprints, hair, fibers, blood spatters, ballistics and arson.
These merits make SPN a good candidate for various digital forensic applications.
General, serious, very serious, special, and tbs meriting recidivism during treatment, after treatment, and overall were charted for forensic psychiatric patients discharged from a Dutch forensic psychiatric centre between 1999 and 2008 (N = 164).
When confronted with overwhelming evidence of innocence, prosecutorial misconduct, and forensic charlatanism, I've often heard or read state officials duck the actual merits of the arguments, and instead point out that the people making them are anti-death penalty zealots, or liberals from out of state, or some other effort to malign their motives.
As tests are increasingly important in education — used to determine graduation, graduate school admission and, the latest, merit pay and tenure for teachers — business has been good for Caveon, a company that uses "data forensics" to catch cheats, billing itself as the only independent test security outfit in the country.
