Forensics under fire: are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice?
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 : how many babies are murdered? -- Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation? -- Swollen brains and...
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| Medienart: | Druck Buch |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Veröffentlicht: |
New Brunswick, NJ [u.a.]
Rutgers University Press
2008
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| In: | Jahr: 2008 |
| Bestand in Tübingen: | In Tübingen vorhanden. UB: KB 20 A 3429 |
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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 : how many babies are murdered? -- Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation? -- Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide? -- Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise -- Fingerprints don't lie : except in Scotland -- Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis -- Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints? -- Earmark identification : emerging science or bad evidence? -- Expert vs. expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case -- The Ramsey case : act two -- Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science -- DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people -- Bullet identification : FBI style -- The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | XI, 324 S. |
| ISBN: | 9780813542713 |