Failed evidence : why law enforcement resists science /
With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth, asserts law professor and nationally known expert o...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
New York University Press,
©2012.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : Science-driven policing, or police indifference to science?
- Science and traditional police investigative methods : a lot we thought we knew was wrong
- In their own words : why police and prosecutors say they resist science
- The real reasons for resistance : cognitive barriers
- The real reasons for resistance : institutional and political barriers
- What must be done and how to make it happen
- Reasons for hope : examples of real change
- Conclusion : From the task to the solutions.