Articles
Examining the "CSI-effect" in the cases of circumstantial evidence and eyewitness testimony: Multivariate and path analyses (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Journal of Criminal Justice (2009)
As part of a larger investigation of the changing nature of juror behavior in the...
An Indirect-Effects Model of Mediated Adjudication: The CSI Myth, the Tech Effect, and Metropolitan Jurors' Expectations for Scientific Evidence (with Young S. Kim and Gregg Barak), Vanderbilt Journal of Enterntainment & Technology Law (2009)
Part I of this article defines the "CSI effect", given that the phrase has come...
Twenty-First Century Forensic Science Challenges for Trial Judges in Criminal Cases: Where the "Polybutadiene" Meets the "Bitumen", Widener Law Journal (2009)
This artice discusses the challenges faced by trial judges in crimnal cases in fulfilling their...
The "CSI Effect": Does It Really Exist?, National Institute of Justice Journal (2008)
Based on recent empirical jury studies, jurors have increased expectations that prosecutors will present scientific...
A Study of Juror Expectations and Demands Concerning Scientific Evidence: Does the “CSI Effect” Exist? (with Gregg Barak and Young S. Kim), Vanderbilt Journal of Entertainment & Technology Law (2007)
Many prosecutors, judges and journalists have claimed that watching television shows like CSI have caused...
Technology, Popular Culture and the Court System - Strange Bedfellows?, National Center for State Courts 2006 Future Trends in State Courts (2006)
The technological revolution is now part of our popular culture and that popular culture is...
Equally Bad is Not Good: Allowing Title IX “Compliance” by the Elimination of Men’s Collegiate Sports, University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform (2001)
Athletic participation is an important part of the educational process, instilling important lessons about discipline...
All Aboard? Electronic Filing and the Digital Divide, American Bar Association Judge's Journal (2001)
There still exists a large part of our population that is not connected to the...
Teaching Technology to Judges, American Bar Association Judge's Journal (2001)
As our courts move at an ever-increasing pace to digitize information and indeed, to move...
Contributions to Books
Unpublished Papers
The Admissibility of Social Science Evidence in Criminal Cases (2009)
The rapid development of emerging scientific methods, especially the increased understanding of deoxyribonucleic acid ("DNA"),...
The Current State of Domestic Violence Courts in the United States, 2007, National Center for State Courts White Paper (2007)
This is an effort to collect, update and catalogue a list of specialized domestic violence...
A Database of Persons Convicted of Felonies in Washtenaw County, Michigan, 1990-2007 (2007)
This study is a database of information from Washtenaw County, Michigan, court records of approximately...
An Evaluation of the Status Offense Diversion Program in the Juvenile Court of Washtenaw County (2007)
The Washtenaw Juvenile Court Status Offense Diversion Program was implemented in 2002 to provide effective...