Forensics under fire [[electronic resource] ] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / / Jim Fisher
| Forensics under fire [[electronic resource] ] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / / Jim Fisher |
| Autore | Fisher Jim <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.25 |
| Soggetto topico |
Criminal investigation - United States
Crime scene searches - United States Forensic sciences - United States Evidence, Criminal - United States |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-281-39722-9
9786611397227 0-8135-4424-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910454645003321 |
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| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Forensics under fire [[electronic resource] ] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / / Jim Fisher
| Forensics under fire [[electronic resource] ] : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? / / Jim Fisher |
| Autore | Fisher Jim <1939-> |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (340 p.) |
| Disciplina | 363.25 |
| Soggetto topico |
Criminal investigation - United States
Crime scene searches - United States Forensic sciences - United States Evidence, Criminal - United States |
| ISBN |
1-281-39722-9
9786611397227 0-8135-4424-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto | 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. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910782293803321 |
Fisher Jim <1939->
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| New Brunswick, N.J., : Rutgers University Press, c2008 | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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