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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fisher, Jim, 1939- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Temas:
Criminal investigation > United States.
Crime scene searches > United States.
Forensic sciences > United States.
Evidence, Criminal > United States.
Enquêtes criminelles > États-Unis.
Fouilles du lieu d'un crime > États-Unis.
Criminalistique > États-Unis.
Preuve (Droit pénal) > États-Unis.
LAW > Forensic Science.
SCIENCE > General.
Crime scene searches
Criminal investigation
Evidence, Criminal
Forensic sciences
United States
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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