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Simon A. Cole
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Associate Professor
Ph.D. Science & Technology Studies, Cornell University
Phone: 824-1443
Office: 2357 Social Ecology II
Specializations: science, technology, law, and criminal justice
Simon A. Cole specializes in the historical and sociological study of the interaction between science, technology, law, and criminal justice. He is the author of Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard University Press, 2001), which was awarded the 2003 Rachel Carson Prize by the Society for Social Studies of Science. Dr. Cole is a member of the American Judicature Society Commission on Forensic Science & Public Policy, he has spoken widely on the subjects of fingerprinting, scientific evidence, and science and the law, and he has consulted and testified as an expert witness on the validity of fingerprint evidence. He has also written for many general interest publications, including The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, New Scientist, and Lingua Franca. His current interests are the sociology of forensic science and the development of criminal identification databases and biometric technologies. He teaches courses on Forensic Science and Society, Surveillance and Society, Miscarriages of Justice, The Dealth Penalty, Historical Criminology, and Science, Technology, and Law, and he is Co-Editor of the journal Theoretical Criminology.
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Selected Publications
- Simon A. Cole, “Out of the Daubert Fire and into the Fryeing Pan? Self-Validation, Meta-Expertise and the Admissibility of Latent Print Evidence in Frye Jurisdictions,” Minnesota Journal of Law, Science & Technology, Volume 9, Issue 2 (Spring 2008), pp. 453-541.
- Simon A. Cole, Max Welling, Rachel Dioso-Villa & Robert Carpenter, "Beyond the Individuality of Fingerprints: A Measure of Simulated Computer Latent Print Source Attribution Accuracy," Law, Probability and Risk (2008); doi: 10.1093/lpr/mgn004
- Simon A. Cole, "The 'Opinionization' of Fingerprint Evidence," BioSocieties, Volume 3, Number 1 (2008), pp. 105-113. (Copyright Cambridge University Press, BioSocieties.)
- Simon A. Cole, “Toward Evidence-Based Evidence: Supporting Forensic Knowledge Claims in the Post-Daubert Era,” Tulsa Law Review, Volume 43, Number 2 (Winter 2007), pp. 263-283.
- Simon A. Cole, “Where the Rubber Meets the Road: Thinking about Expert Evidence as Expert Testimony,” Villanova Law Review, Volume 52, Number 4 (2007), pp. 803-842.
- Simon A. Cole, "Is the 'Junk' DNA Designation Bunk?" Northwestern University Law Review Colloquy, Volume 102 (2007), pp. 54-63.
- Simon A. Cole, "Double Helix Jeopardy", IEEE Spectrum, Volume 44, Number 8 (August 2007), 44-49.
- Simon A. Cole, "Comment on 'Scientific Validation of Fingerprint Evidence under Daubert,'" Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 7, Number 2 (2008), pp. 119-126.
- Simon A. Cole & Rachel Dioso-Villa, "CSI and Its Effects: Media, Juries, and the Burden of Proof," New England Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3 (Spring 2007), pp. 435-469.
- Simon A. Cole, "The Fingerprint Controversy," Skeptical Inquirer, Volume 31, Issue 4 (July/August 2007), pp. 41-46.
- Simon A. Cole, "How Much Justice Can Technology Afford? The Impact of DNA Technology on Equal Criminal Justice," Science & Public Policy, Volume 34, Number 2 (March 2007), pp. 95-107.
- William C. Thompson & Simon A. Cole, "Psychological Aspects of Forensic Identification Evidence" in Mark Costanzo, Daniel Krauss, & Kathy Pezdek (eds.), Expert Psychological Testimony for the Courts (Erlbaum, 2007), pp. 31-68.
- Simon A. Cole, "A Little Art, A Little Science, A Little 'CSI'," New York Times (December 31, 2006), Section 2, p. 31.
- Simon A. Cole & Michael Lynch, "The Social and Legal Construction of Suspects," Annual Review of Law & Social Science, Volume 2 (2006), pp. 39-60.
- Simon A. Cole, "The Myth of Fingerprints: The Legacy of Forensic Fingerprinting and Arrestee Databases," GeneWatch, Volume 19, Number 6 (Nov.-Dec. 2006), pp. 3-6.
- Simon A. Cole, "The Prevalence and Potential Causes of Wrongful Conviction by Fingerprint Evidence," Golden Gate University Law Review, Volume 37, Number 1 (Fall 2006), pp. 39-105.
- Simon A. Cole, "Misplaced Convictions," New Scientist, Number 2543 (March 18, 2006), p. 23.
- Simon A. Cole, "'Implicit Testing': Can Casework Validate Forensic Techniques?" Jurimetrics, Volume 46, Number 2 (Winter 2006), pp. 117-128.
- Simon A. Cole, "Is Fingerprint Identification Valid? Rhetorics of Reliability in Fingerprint Proponents' Discourse," Law & Policy, Volume 28, Number 1 (January 2006), pp. 109-135. [This is an electronic version of an article published in Law and Policy: complete citation information for the final version of the paper, as published in the print edition of Law and Policy, is available on the Blackwell Synergy online delivery service, accessible via the journal's website at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/lapo or http://www.blackwell-synergy.com.]
- Simon A. Cole, William A. Tobin, Lyndsay N. Boggess, & Hal S. Stern, "A Retail Sampling Approach to Assess Impact of Geographic Concentrations on Probative Value of Comparative Bullet Lead Analysis," Law, Probability and Risk, Volume 4, Number 4 (2005), pp. 199-216.
- Simon A. Cole, "Brandon Mayfield, Suspect" in John Knechtel (ed.), Suspect (Alphabet City Number 10) (MIT Press, 2005), pp. 170-185.
- Simon A. Cole, "Does 'Yes' Really Mean Yes? The Attempt to Close Debate on the Admissibility of Fingerprint Testimony," Jurimetrics, Volume 45, Number 4 (Summer 2005), pp. 449-464.
- Simon Cole & Rachel Dioso, "Law and the Lab," Wall Street Journal (May 13, 2005), p. W13.
- Simon A. Cole, "More Than Zero: Accounting for Error in Latent Fingerprint Identification," Journal of Criminal Law & Criminology, Volume 95, Number 3 (Spring 2005), pp. 985-1078.
- Michael Lynch & Simon Cole, "Science and Technology Studies on Trial," Social Studies of Science, Volume 35, Number 2 (April 2005), pp. 269-311.
- William C. Thompson & Simon A. Cole, "Lessons from the Brandon Mayfield Case," The Champion, Volume 29, Number 3 (April 2005), pp. 42-44.
- Simon A. Cole, "Jackson Pollock, Judge Pollak, and the Dilemma of Fingerprint Expertise" in Gary Edmond (ed.), Expertise in Regulation and Law (Ashgate, 2004), pp. 98-120.
- Simon A. Cole, "Grandfathering Evidence: Fingerprint Admissibility Rulings from Jennings to Llera Plaza and Back Again," American Criminal Law Review, Volume 41, Number 3 (Summer 2004), pp. 1189-1276.
- Simon A. Cole, "Fingerprint Identification and the Criminal Justice System: Historical Lessons for the DNA Debate" in David Lazer (ed.), DNA and the Criminal Justice System: The Technology of Justice (MIT Press, 2004), pp. 63-89.
- Simon A. Cole, "Fingerprinting: The First Junk Science?" Oklahoma City University Law Review, Volume 28, Number 1 (Spring 2003), pp. 73-92.
- Simon A. Cole, "History of Fingerprint Identification" in Nalini K. Ratha & Ruud M. Bolle (eds.), Automatic Fingerprint Recognition Systems (Springer-Verlag, 2003), pp. 1-25.
- Simon A. Cole, Suspect Identities: A History of Fingerprinting and Criminal Identification (Harvard University Press, 2001).
- Simon A. Cole, "From the Sexual Psychopath Statute to 'Megan's Law': Psychiatric Knowledge in the Diagnosis, Treatment, and Adjudication of Sex Criminals in New Jersey, 1949-1999," Journal of the History of Medicine and Allied Sciences, Volume 55, Number 3 (July 2000), pp. 292-314.
- Simon A. Cole, "What Counts for Identity? The Historical Origins of the Methodology of Latent Fingerprint Identification," Science in Context, Volume 12, Number 1 (Spring 1999), pp. 139-172.
- Simon A. Cole, "Witnessing Identification: Latent Fingerprint Evidence and Expert Knowledge," Social Studies of Science, Volume 28, Numbers 5-6 (October-December 1998), pp. 687-712.
- Simon A. Cole, "Which Came First, the Fossil or the Fuel?" Social Studies of Science, Volume 26, Number 4 (November 1996), pp. 733-766.
- Simon A. Cole, "Do Androids Pulverize Tiger Bones to Use as Aphrodisiacs?" Social Text, Number 42 (Spring 1995), pp. 173-193.
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