Forensics Under Fire : Are Bad Science and Dueling Experts Corrupting Criminal Justice? /

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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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Autor principal: Fisher, Jim (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, NJ : Rutgers University Press, [2008]
Temas:
Crime scene searches > United States.
Criminal investigation > United States.
Evidence, Criminal > United States.
Forensic sciences > United States.
LAW / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • PART ONE. Diagnosing Death: Problems in the Science and Practice of Forensic Pathology
  • Introduction
  • 1. Forensic Pathologists from Hell: Bungled Autopsies, Bad Calls, and Blown Cases
  • 2. A Question of Credibility: Bad Reputations and the Politics of Death
  • 3. The Sudden Infant Death Debate: Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen Syndrome by Proxy, and Meadow's Law
  • 4. Infants Who Can't Breathe: Illness or Suffocation?
  • 5. Swollen Brains and Broken Bones: Disease or Infanticide?
  • PART TWO. Crime-Scene Impression Identification: Forensic Science or Subjective Analysis?
  • 6. Fingerprint Identification: Trouble in Paradise
  • 7. Fingerprints Never Lie: Except in Scotland
  • 8. Shoe-Print Identification and Foot Morphology: The Lay Witness and the Cinderella Analysis
  • 9. Bite-Mark Identification: Do Teeth Leave Prints?
  • 10. Ear-Mark Identification: Emerging Science or Bad Evidence?
  • PART THREE. Hired Guns, Smoke Blowers, and Phonies: The Expert Witness Problem
  • Introduction
  • 11. Expert versus Expert: The Handwriting Wars in the Ramsey Case
  • 12. John Mark Karr: DNA Trumps the Graphologists in the Ramsey Case
  • 13. Hair and Fiber Identification: An Inexact Science
  • 14. DNA Analysis: Backlogs, Sloppy Work, and Unqualified People
  • 15. Bullet Identification, FBI Style: Overselling the Science
  • 16. The Celebrity Expert: Dr. Henry Lee
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Sources
  • Index
  • ABOUT THE AUTHOR

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