Citation

Overill RE, Chow KP. Forensic Sci. Res. 2016; 1(1): 28-32.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2016, Informa - Taylor and Francis Group)

DOI

10.1080/20961790.2016.1253142

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

A table of 95% confidence limits on the probabilities for randomly downloading relatively small numbers of illegal images or sensitive documents amongst a relatively large number of other images or documents has been computed. It is anticipated that these data will assist prosecution officials in arriving at a decision as to whether or not there is a reasonable likelihood of a successful criminal prosecution when the inadvertent download defence is employed in cases of possession of child pornography, terrorist material or espionage-related documents. The same data can also be used by defence counsels to assess the strength of the prosecution's case.

Language: en

Keywords

binomial distribution, inadvertent download defence; confidence interval; counter espionage; counter terrorism; Forensic science; possession of child pornography; probability theory