Chin Jason M, Arabia Anna-Maria, McKinnon Merryn, Page Matthew J, Searston Rachel A
College of Law, Australian National University, Australia.
Australian Academy of Science, Australia.
Forensic Sci Int Synerg. 2024 Aug 31;9:100542. doi: 10.1016/j.fsisyn.2024.100542. eCollection 2024.
Forensic scientific practitioners and researchers must navigate a rapidly growing body of research. This makes it increasingly challenging to inform courts, lawyers, and other decision makers about the state of the field, thus heightening the chances of wrongful convictions and acquittals. When similar challenges have arisen in other fields, they have turned to systematic reviews, which are research reviews that use formal, articulated methods to provide a comprehensive summary of the literature on a specific research question. Systematic reviews allow users to evaluate how the authors identified research and synthesised its findings, making them more transparent than informal literature reviews. This article lays out a justification and plan for systematic reviews in forensic science.
法医科学从业者和研究人员必须应对快速增长的研究成果。这使得向法院、律师和其他决策者通报该领域的现状变得越来越具有挑战性，从而增加了错误定罪和无罪释放的可能性。当其他领域出现类似挑战时，他们求助于系统评价，系统评价是一种研究综述，它使用正式、清晰的方法对关于特定研究问题的文献进行全面总结。系统评价让使用者能够评估作者如何识别研究并综合其结果，这使得它们比非正式的文献综述更具透明度。本文阐述了法医科学中系统评价的理由和计划。
