Publications/ Teaching

Publications

"How Approximations Take Us Away From Theory and Toward the Truth" Pacific Philosophical Quarterly, July 1983

"Bootstrapping While Barefoot [Crime Models vs. Theoretical Models in the Hunt for Serial Killers]" Synthese, 1989

"Can We Believe What We See If We See What We Believe? Expert Disagreement" Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 37, No. 4, July 1992

"Science is as Science Does: The Question of Reliable Methodologies in "Real Science"" Shepard's Expert and Scientific Evidence Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 3, winter 1995

"A Member of the Roy Rogers Riders Club Must Follow the Rules Faithfully" Journal of Forensic Sciences, Vol. 42, No. 6, November, 1997

Dead Reckoning: The Art of Detection, CRC Press, December 1999

Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques, edited with Stuart James, CRC Press, 2002

Instructor's Guide for Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific & Investigative Techniques, with Stuart James and Sara Kreisman, CRC Press, 2003

Selected Teaching Areas

Ballistics
Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
Crime Scene Reconstruction
Criminalistics
Critical Thinking
Death Investigation
Ethics
Logic
Philosophy of Science and Medicine

Career Related Activities

Forensic Science Team member National Disaster Medical System
DMORT Team, Region #10, Office of Emergency Preparedness Pacific Rim Region   9/98

National Disaster Medical System Deployment: New York City - World Trade Center Terrorist Attack on America    9/11/01
Duties:

• Evidence Section- receive/catalog human remains & evidence for OCME & NYPD
• Memorial Park- store, retrieve tissues for forensic analysis
• Imaging Section - computerize and review developing case files for OCME, NYPD