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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Fisher, Jim, 1939-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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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.