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Questions and Answers: The Logic of Preliminary Fact Investigation
Author(s) -
Abimbola Kola
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
journal of law and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.263
H-Index - 48
eISSN - 1467-6478
pISSN - 0263-323X
DOI - 10.1111/1467-6478.00232
Subject(s) - simple (philosophy) , psychology , epistemology , computer science , philosophy
My paper considers the role of questions and answers in the inferential tasks of fact investigators (investigators such as police officers and crime scene examiners) prior to trial and indeed prior to arrest. My contention is that the reasoning processes of these investigators obey an internal, simple, successful, but dangerous, logic.