Exploring further
If you want to explore further and find out more about the issues discussed in this course, you may find the following of interest.
If you would like to find out more about the prosecutor’s fallacy, you can read this article: Mitchell, J. (2021) ‘The prosecutor’s fallacy: how flawed statistical evidence has been used to jail innocent people’, Cherwell, 2 May.
If you would like to read more about how a cadaver dog secured a conviction in the US, you can find more details in the following article: Ward, C. (2013) ‘Former aurora man found guilty of wife’s 1990 murder’, Chicago Tribune, 31 October.
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