RT Book
T1 Forensics under fire: are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice?
A1 Fisher, Jim 1939-
LA English
PP New Brunswick, NJ u.a.
PB Rutgers University Press
YR 2008
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1615956867
AB 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
NO Includes bibliographical references and index
CN HV8073
SN 978-0-8135-4271-3
K1 Criminal Investigation : United States
K1 Crime scene searches : United States
K1 Forensic sciences : United States
K1 Evidence, Criminal : United States