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Record Nr.

UNINA9910828830503321

Autore

Buker Hasan <1977->

Titolo

Fraudulent forensic evidence [[electronic resource] ] : malpractice in crime laboratories / / Hasan Buker

Pubbl/distr/stampa

El Paso, : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012

ISBN

1-59332-595-9

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (305 p.)

Collana

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Disciplina

363.250973

Soggetti

Crime laboratories - United States

Malpractice - United States

Evidence, Criminal - United States

Criminal investigation - United States

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Forensic sciences and publicly-funded crime labs: an overview -- Understanding breakdowns in formal organizations: developing a conceptual framework -- Methodologies employed in the study -- Digging deeper: scrutinizing malpractice in crime labs -- Nature and etiology of malpractice in crime labs: a system failure? -- Than what ...? Concluding remarks.

Sommario/riassunto

Buker tells the untold story of crime labs. Through extensive field research he scrutinizes the problem of malpractice in the US publicly-funded crime labs from an administrative perspective. Several examples of malpractice in these organizations reflect not only individual mishaps of forensic scientists working in these labs, but also organizational failures. Buker finds that elements of organizational environment and organizational behavior of the crime labs combine to create this organizational failure. He concludes with public policy suggestions to maintain and amplify the trustworthiness