Law Probability and Risk

期刊简介：Law, Probability & Risk is a fully refereed journal which publishes papers dealing with topics on the interface of law and probabilistic reasoning. These are interpreted broadly to include aspects relevant to the interpretation of scientific evidence, the assessment of uncertainty and the assessment of risk. The readership includes academic lawyers, mathematicians, statisticians and social scientists with interests in quantitative reasoning.The primary objective of the journal is to cover issues in law, which have a scientific element, with an emphasis on statistical and probabilistic issues and the assessment of risk.Examples of topics which may be covered include communications law, computers and the law, environmental law, law and medicine, regulatory law for science and technology, identification problems (such as DNA but including other materials), sampling issues (drugs, computer pornography, fraud), offender profiling, credit scoring, risk assessment, the role of statistics and probability in drafting legislation, the assessment of competing theories of evidence (possibly with a view to forming an optimal combination of them). In addition, a whole new area is emerging in the application of computers to medicine and other safety-critical areas. New legislation is required to define the responsibility of computer experts who develop software for tackling these safety-critical problems.

【译文】《法律、概率与风险》是一本完全经过同行评审的期刊，发表关于法律与概率推理交叉领域的论文。这些主题被广泛解释，包括与科学证据解释、不确定性评估和风险评估相关的方面。读者包括对定量推理感兴趣的学术律师、数学家、统计学家和社会科学家。该期刊的主要目标是涵盖具有科学元素的法律问题，重点关注统计和概率问题以及风险评估。可能涵盖的主题包括通信法、计算机与法律、环境法、法律与医学、科学技术监管法、识别问题（如DNA，包括其他材料）、抽样问题（药物、计算机色情、欺诈）、罪犯画像、信用评分、风险评估、统计和概率在立法中的作用，以及评估相互竞争的证据理论（可能旨在形成它们的最佳组合）。此外，计算机在医学和其他安全关键领域的应用正在出现一个全新的领域。需要新的立法来定义开发解决这些安全关键问题的软件的计算机专家的责任。