Forensics under fire : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / Jim Fisher.
Television shows like CSI, Forensic Files, and The New Detectives make it look so easy. A crime-scene photographer snaps photographs, a fingerprint technician examines a gun, uniformed officers seal off a house while detectives gather hair and blood samples, placing them carefully into separate evid...
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| 100 | 1 | |a Fisher, Jim, |d 1939- |e author. | |
| 245 | 1 | 0 | |a Forensics under fire : |b are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / |c Jim Fisher. |
| 260 | |a New Brunswick, N.J. : |b Rutgers University Press, |c ©2008. | ||
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| 505 | 0 | |a Forensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown cases -- A question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of death -- The sudden infant death debate Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and Meadow's law -- Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation? -- Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide? -- Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise -- Fingerprints never lie : except in Scotland -- Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis -- Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints? -- Ear-mark identification : emerging science or bad evidence? -- Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case -- John Mark Karr : DNA Trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case -- Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science -- DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people -- Bullet identification : FBI style overselling the science -- The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee. | |
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| 520 | |a Television shows like CSI, Forensic Files, and The New Detectives make it look so easy. A crime-scene photographer snaps photographs, a fingerprint technician examines a gun, uniformed officers seal off a house while detectives gather hair and blood samples, placing them carefully into separate evidence containers. In a crime laboratory, a suspect?s hands are meticulously examined for gunshot residue. An autopsy is performed in order to determine range and angle of the gunshot and time-of-death evidence. Dozens of tests and analyses are performed and cross-referenced. A conviction is made. Ano. | ||
| 546 | |a In English. | ||
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| 650 | 0 | |a Criminal investigation |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Crime scene searches |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Forensic sciences |z United States. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Evidence, Criminal |z United States. | |
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