Nicholas Scurich is a professor and the chair of the Department of Psychological Science at the University of California, Irvine. He researches topics in applied decision-making and the assessment of risky and dangerous behavior. He has testified in state and federal courts on topics at the intersection of science and law. The Supreme Court of the United States has cited his research.
A Widely Used Criminal Justice Algorithm For Assessing Child Pornography Recidivism Is Flawed
The CPORT algorithm, commonly used to estimate the risk that a child pornography offender will offend again, hasn’t been validated for use in the U.S.
The Field of Firearms Forensics Is Flawed
The matching of bullets to guns is subjective, and courts are starting to question it because of testimony from scientific experts