Judges' Awareness, Understanding, and Application of Digital Evidence (Doctoral Dissertation)

"As digital evidence grows in both volume and importance in criminal and civil courts, judges need to fairly and justly evaluate the merits of offered evidence. To do so, judges need a general understanding of the underlying technologies and applications from which digital evidence is derived. Due to the relative newness of the computer forensics field, there have been few studies on the use of digital forensic evidence and none about judges' relationship with digital evidence."--from the abstract of the dissertation