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Explains and demonstrates how evidential reasoning can be used to track criminal liability in the context of complex accidents
Introduces powerful and user-friendly key steps for identifying causal links between damaging events and the conduct of specific subjects
Supports professionals and government bodies that study complex accident that sometimes develop into civil disasters
Provides an authoritative method for prosecutors and judges to assess the reconstruction of complex accidents (be they civil air or rail transport or industrial manufacturing facilities, etc) that involve complex systems as a first step in identifying the correct profiles of responsibility
Puts into practice the fundamentals described step-by-step throughout the book
Describes real cases with two different levels of complexity
The book’s website helps readers to learn how to apply sequence of events analysis to 3D dynamic crime scene reconstructions
A common-language tool is created for exchanging information between technical experts and lawyers
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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On Judicial and Evidential Reasoning in the Field of Industrial Accidents
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Front Matter
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From Scientific Proofs to Reconstruction of Multilevel Liability Pattern in Organization
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About this book
This book presents a general method that lawyers, prosecutors and judges can follows to assess the quality and scientific content of technical work done for an accident and crime scene reconstruction. Using multilevel sequence of events analysis allows all key events to be fully identified, which in turn assists judicial bodies in identifying where to assign specific criminal liability. Created from a concept long sought by the two authors (an engineer and an attorney), the method allows readers without any technical background to progress from an examination of evidence gathered at the scene of a complex accident and to reconstruct "beyond reasonable doubt" the events that took place. Once created and scientifically verified by the sequence of events analysis, the chain of key events serves as a reference source for various levels of complex organizations and inter-organization structures in cases involving complex criminal responsibilities.
Keywords
- Accident assessor
- Accident reconstruction
- Causality
- Causation
- Complex accidents
- Criminal procedure
- Criminal responsibility
- Criminal trials
- Damage analysis
- Damage event analysis
- Disaster
- Failure analysis
- Forensics
- Industrial accident
- Investigators
- Prosecutors
- Scientific method
- Sequence of event analysis
- Technical expert
Authors and Affiliations
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Mechanical Engineering, Politecnico di Milano, Milan, Italy
Fabrizio D’Errico
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Lucca Court, Lido di Camaiore, Italy
Maurizio Dalla Casa
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Sequence of Event Analysis in Criminal Trials
Book Subtitle: Scientific Proofs for Tracking Criminal Liabilities in Complex Accidents and Disasters
Authors: Fabrizio D’Errico, Maurizio Dalla Casa
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-662-47898-1
Publisher: Springer Berlin, Heidelberg
eBook Packages: Law and Criminology, Law and Criminology (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-662-47897-4Published: 22 August 2015
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-662-51640-9Published: 22 October 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-3-662-47898-1Published: 31 July 2015
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 127
Number of Illustrations: 11 b/w illustrations, 9 illustrations in colour
Topics: International Criminal Law , Criminology and Criminal Justice, general, Transportation Technology and Traffic Engineering, Private International Law, International & Foreign Law, Comparative Law , Fundamentals of Law