Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction Firearm and toolmark identification analysis has been heavily criticised in recent years; the major concern within this field of study is that there is no known error rate with these analyses. To supply an accurate error rate is problematic because of the... [Read More]

Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction In the introduction of this paper, the author(s) discuss the background of firearm and toolmark identification and provides criticisms surrounding the motion towards statistical methods for firearm and toolmark identification. From what I understood, the speaker was essentially saying that identifying toolmarks... [Read More]

There have been much criticism of how accurately evidence can be presented in the field of fire arms and tool mark evidences. One of the main concerns within this field is that the community has not yet succeeded in supplying the “known or potential error rate. From a statistical point... [Read More]

click for paper. Summary of Murdock et. al ###Introduction With the work some researchers are doing in the forensic field there is bound to be criticism as to the methods currently used. Criticism is usually helpful and wanted, but “just as substandard work deserves derision, so does substandard... [Read More]

Summary of Murdock et al. Introduction There are two communities, statistics and law enforcement, which have varying opinions of the evaluation of firearm toolmarks. Statisticians are concerned with the absence of probability models that include type one and two error. Through the research that has been done the... [Read More]

Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction At the beginning of the paper, the writers criticized about how accurately evidence can be presented in the field of fire arms and tool mark evidences. Critics argue that this field does not have a strong statistical basis of tool mark identification.... [Read More]

Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction The nature of firearm and toolmark marks makes it difficult to create a statistical model that can accurately and reliably (from a statistical standpoint) predict the chances of a randomly aquired characteristic of being actually random. The models that have been suggested... [Read More]

Background: Carefully read the paper, “The Development and Application of Random Match Probabilities to Firearm and Toolmark Identification” by Murdock et al. It is provided in the repo here. Your assignment has two parts: Your first assignment is to summarize this paper. There are four sections: the... [Read More]

Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction Due to the nature of the criminal justice system, or any system that pins individual’s against one another, there will always be questions raised in regards to the evidence. Critics of firearm and toolmark evidence examination say that there is little to... [Read More]

Summary of Murdock et. al Introduction There have been much criticism of how accurately evidence can be presented in the field of firearms and toolmark evidences. One main concern within this field is that the community has not yet succeeded in supplying the “known or potential error rate.... [Read More]

Summary of Murdock et. Al Introduction The writers keep reiterating in the introduction that the explanations to date in reference to a statistical model (being established) dealing with firearm and toolmark analysis are fallacies and lack scientific methodology / basis. However, it is stated in the reading that firearm and... [Read More]