Forensics under fire (Record no. 39764)
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|---|---|
| fixed length control field | 02430nam a22003494a 4500 |
| 082 04 - DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | 363.25 |
| 100 1# - MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Fisher, Jim, |
| 245 10 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Forensics under fire |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. (IMPRINT) | |
| Place of publication | New Brunswick, N.J. : |
| Name of publisher | Rutgers University Press, |
| Year of publication | c2008. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 324 p. |
| 505 0# - FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | 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. |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Criminal investigation |
| Topical Term | Crime scene searches |
| Topical Term | Forensic sciences |
| Topical Term | Evidence, Criminal |
| 856 40 - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS | |
| Uniform Resource Identifier | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10231503 |
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