Forensics under fire : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / / Jim Fisher.

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Forensics under fire [electronic resource] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / Jim Fisher.
New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
xi, 324 p.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Criminal investigation United States.
Crime scene searches United States.
Forensic sciences United States.
Evidence, Criminal United States.
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title_full Forensics under fire [electronic resource] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / Jim Fisher.
title_fullStr Forensics under fire [electronic resource] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / Jim Fisher.
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