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100 1 _aFisher, Jim,
_d1939-
245 1 0 _aForensics under fire
_h[electronic resource] :
_bare bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? /
_cJim Fisher.
260 _aNew Brunswick, N.J. :
_bRutgers University Press,
_cc2008.
300 _axi, 324 p.
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index.
505 0 _aForensic 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.
533 _aElectronic reproduction.
_bPalo Alto, Calif. :
_cebrary,
_d2013.
_nAvailable via World Wide Web.
_nAccess may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
650 0 _aCriminal investigation
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aCrime scene searches
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aForensic sciences
_zUnited States.
650 0 _aEvidence, Criminal
_zUnited States.
655 7 _aElectronic books.
_2local
710 2 _aebrary, Inc.
856 4 0 _uhttp://site.ebrary.com/lib/rucke/Doc?id=10231503
_zAn electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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