The Role of Organization in Creating Errors Forensic Science Laboratories: An Interview with Roger Koppl
Episode Number:
020 
What is the role of organization in creating forensic science errors?
Roger Koppl is a Professor of Economics and Finance in the Silberman College of Business and Director of the Institute for Forensic Science Administration at Fairleigh Dickinson University. His main research area is forensic science administration, which is the study of how error rates in forensic science may be affected by institutional and organizational structures. You can read his recent paper, Organization Economics Explains Many Forensic Science Errors in the Journal of Institutional Economics here: http://journals.cambridge.org/action/displayFulltext?type=1&fid=7119372&jid=JOI&volumeId=6&issueId=01&aid=7119364
Koppl’s work makes a theoretically grounded link between the architecture of organization and the incidence error. It brings the economic point of view to the problem of forensic science errors.
In this interview, we discuss various ways errors can occur in the forensic science laboratory, and the steps labs can take to reduce them.
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