#167 – Professor Kristy Martire on The Processes of Evidence Evaluation in Criminal Trials
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In this episode of Better Thinking, Nesh Nikolic speaks with Kristy Martire about how evidence is evaluated in criminal trials and ways to enhance communication between experts and lay decision-makers in forensic settings.
Dr. Kristy Martire is a Professor in the School of Psychology at the University of New South Wales, Sydney Australia. Her research aims to better understand the development of expertise, processes of evidence evaluation in criminal trials, and to improve the communication between experts and lay decision-makers in forensic settings.
She works closely with Dr. Neal and the CLJ Lab through the PLuS Alliance and also hosted Dr. Neal at UNSW during her Fulbright scholarship in Spring 2022. Drs. Neal and Martire were retained by the Mass Casualty Commission to summarize best practices in forensic psychological assessment and apply that framework to a particular psychological autopsy in a major Canadian case.
Links:
Professor Kristy Martire (UNSW)
Joint Federal/Provincial Commission into the April 2020 Nova Scotia Mass Casualty
Rigorous Forensic Psychological Assessment Practices for the Commission
The Law Meets Psychological Expertise: Eight Best Practices to Improve Forensic Psychological Assessment
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