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Forensics under fire : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice?

Fisher, Jim, 1939 · New Brunswick, N.J : Rutgers University Press, 2008

Publisher
New Brunswick, N.J : Rutgers University Press, 2008
Physical description
324 pages
Dewey classification
363.25
Language
English

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001Control number17023
003Control number identifierCaPaEBR
005Date and time of latest transaction25 Dec 2010, 09:34
006Fixed-length data elements – additional material characteristicsm u
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008Fixed-length data elements070525s2008 nju sb 001 0 eng
020International Standard Book Number (ISBN)9780813542713 (hardcover : alk. paper)
040Cataloging sourceCaPaEBR CaPaEBR
041Language codeeng
043Geographic area coden-us---
050Library of Congress call numberHV8073 .F522 2008eb
082Dewey Decimal call number363.25 For-F
100Main entry – personal nameFisher, Jim, 1939-
245Title statementForensics under fire [electronic resource] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / Jim Fisher.
260Publication, distribution, etc. (imprint)New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008
300Physical descriptionxi, 324 p. ; 24 cm.
504Bibliography, etc. noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index.
505Formatted contents noteForensic 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.
533Reproduction noteElectronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. System requirement: ebrary Reader. Available via World Wide Web.
650Subject added entry – topical term
  • Crime scene searches--United States.
  • Criminal investigation--United States.
  • Evidence, Criminal--United States.
  • Forensic sciences--United States.
710Added entry – corporate nameebrary, Inc.
730Added entry – uniform titleebrary.
776Additional physical form entryOriginal (DLC) 2007022050.
999CollectionDownloads