Circumstantial Evidence in UK Law

  • Direct versus Circumstantial Evidence
    • No. 6-4, October 1933
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
  • The Value of Circumstantial Evidence
    • No. 5-2, April 1932
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
  • Science as Applied to Circumstantial Evidence
    • No. 1-2, April 1928
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
  • The Assessment of Circumstantial Scientific Evidence
    • No. 8-4, October 1935
    • Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles
  • Gestalt contexture and contested motives: Understanding video evidence in the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager
    • No. 27-1, February 2023
    • Theoretical Criminology
    This article is situated in ongoing discussions about the influx of images of police violence. To date, much scholarship has centred on Foucauldian notions of knowledge-power and sousveillance. Alt...
    ... ... Despite this, prosecution counsel focused their cross-examinationon post-shooting conduct as circumstantial evidence centred on Slager’s state of mindand intentionality. The decision highlights the complexity of using video evidence toestablish criminal ... ...
  • Gestalt contexture and contested motives: Understanding video evidence in the murder trial of Officer Michael Slager
    • No. 27-1, February 2023
    • Theoretical Criminology
    This article is situated in ongoing discussions about the influx of images of police violence. To date, much scholarship has centred on Foucauldian notions of knowledge-power and sousveillance. Alt...
    ... ... Despite this, prosecution counsel focused their cross-examinationon post-shooting conduct as circumstantial evidence centred on Slager’s state of mindand intentionality. The decision highlights the complexity of using video evidence toestablish criminal ... ...
  • The Standard of Proof in Civil Cases: An Insurance Fraud Perspective
    • No. 17-1, January 2013
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    This article discusses the burden and standard of proof as they apply to cases of insurance fraud, and notes some important historical developments in the law. The tremendous importance of the exac...
    ... ... The insurer may easily find itself bringing complicated circumstantial evidence as to such elusive matters as the insured’s general financial ... ...
  • Negligent criminology: Alfred Adler’s influence on Bernard, Sheldon, and Eleanor Glueck
    • No. 18-5, September 2021
    • European Journal of Criminology
    We suggest that Bernard, Sheldon and Eleanor Glueck routinely applied Alfred Adler’s general psychological concepts to specific instances of criminological theory without proper attribution. We off...
    ... ... Overall, the article exposes a circumstantial evidence of neglect in the criminology literature: Sheldon and Eleanor ... ...
  • Evidentiary instructions improve mock juror assessment of feature-comparison evidence
    • No. 22-3, July 2018
    • International Journal of Evidence & Proof, The
    Feature-comparison evidence has been introduced in court without sufficient scientific validation and has been at the heart of numerous miscarriages of justice. Juror assessment of such evidence an...
    ... ... For the second case report (based on R v George (Barry) [2007] EWCA Crim 2722), all subjects were asked to return verdicts based on circumstantial evi- dence, gunpowder residue evidence and an evidentiary instruction about that gunpowder residue evidence. Verdict severity increased significantly ... ...
  • How is High Trust in China Possible? Comparing the Origins of Generalized Trust in Three Chinese Societies
    • No. 60-2, June 2012
    • Political Studies
    Although China is an outlier in terms of generalized trust, it has attracted little scholarly attention so far. Employing survey data from Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan, this article seeks t...
    ... ... ficant distortion in measured trust levels,the study finds circumstantial evidence for a culturally induced response bias to the standard item in ... ...
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