Scientific truths and judicial truths" symposium

"L'apport des sciences et nouvelles technologies à l'expertise criminalistique et à la connaissance du risque de passage à l'acte délinquant".
Faculty of Law and Political Science, bât. 1, amphitheatre D.

A multidisciplinary, cross-disciplinary approach to forensic science and knowledge of the risk of delinquency is the most effective way of tackling this issue. In this sense, forensic expertise, based on the combination of legal disciplines, forensic psychiatry and forensic chemistry, relies on the necessary confrontation of these different viewpoints. Developments in scientific techniques, as well as in new technologies, are renewing questions and shedding new light on issues that need to be taken into account at the start of the 21st century.

Through the cross-fertilization of disciplines and the reciprocal enrichment this brings, the symposium organized on December 13, 2019 at Montpellier's Faculty of Law and Political Science combines analyses of a legal nature, but also psychiatric and neuropsychiatric, and includes the viewpoints of chemists and criminologists.
Thanks to this type of cross-disciplinary analysis between the social sciences, chemistry and biology-health, unprecedented in its methodology from a social science point of view, both avenues for reflection and practical, concrete effects will emerge.

The symposium will bring together speakers from these diverse disciplines.
It is organized by the Equipe de droit pénal de Montpellier (EDPM/UMR 5815 UM/CNRS Dynamiques du droit), the Institut des Biomolécules Max Mousseron (IBMM), INSERM Unit 1061 and CRIAVS-LR, CHU de Montpellier.

Free admission.

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