Preston Haselton-Parke '23 Publishes Article in Criminal Law Bulletin

Preston Haselton-Parke '23 recently published "Forensic Science: The Perception of Fingerprint Examination" in 59 CRIMINAL LAW BULLETIN 115 (2023). The article is based on a research paper he wrote in the Scientific Evidence seminar in 2022. There is a huge volume of commentary on the question of the reliability of the methodology of fingerprint analysis. However, Haselton-Parke's is the first article to discuss the impact that fundamental perceptual problems can have on a fingerprint examiner's conclusion. The article discusses a number of illusions that can come into play during the analysis and pareidolia, the psychological tendency to impose structure on images.