Artificial Intelligence Tools for Handling Legal Evidence

Abstract

This article is a concise overview of a field which until the late 1990s did not exist in its own right: computer and computational methods for modeling reasoning on legal evidence and crime analysis and detection. Yet, for various kinds of forensic tests, computer techniques were sometimes used, and statistical methods have had some currency in the evaluation of legal evidence. Until recently it would not have been possible to provide an overarching review such as the present one.