Author Description

This timely book warns against the increasing reliance of the courts on the expert witness from the social sciences. The author sets forth what he believes to be the fundamental principles of justice in an attempt to show that the essential character of the social sciences is largely incompatible with the ends of justice.The author attests taht social justice may beenfit from the facts, theories,a nd methods of psychiatrists, psychologists, sociologists, and social workers, but there is a limit to the knowledge incorporated in the social sciences at present, and he urges caution in the use of the knowledge.