Autopsy of a crime lab : exposing the flaws in forensics / / Brandon L. Garrett |
Autore | Garrett Brandon |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2021] |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (252 pages) : illustrations |
Disciplina | 345.064 |
Soggetto topico | DNA fingerprinting - Law and legislation |
Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
Soggetto non controllato |
Error
FBI Wrongful convictions approachable arson investigations bite marks cases courtrooms crime scenes debunk error rates facial recognition software false positives faulty science fibers fingerprints forensic evidence guide laboratories law enforcement legal expert quality control rapid DNA machines regulations solutions statistics technologies |
ISBN | 0-520-97663-0 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Part I The Crisis in Forensics -- Introduction -- 1 The Bite Mark Case -- 2 The Crisis in Forensics -- Part II Flawed Forensics -- 3 False ID -- 4 Error Rates -- 5 Overstatement -- 6 Qualifications -- 7 Hidden Bias -- 8 The Gatekeepers -- Part III Failed Labs -- 9 Failed Quality Control -- 10 Crime Scene Contamination -- Part IV The Movement to Fix Forensics -- 11 The Rebirth of the Lab -- 12 Big Data Forensics -- 13 Fixing Forensics -- Acknowledgments -- Appendix Suggested Resources -- Notes -- Index |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910554254303321 |
Garrett Brandon
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Oakland, California : , : University of California Press, , [2021] | ||
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Fat rights [[electronic resource] ] : dilemmas of difference and personhood / / Anna Kirkland |
Autore | Kirkland Anna Rutherford |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
Disciplina | 342.7308/7 |
Soggetto topico |
Discrimination against overweight persons - Law and legislation - United States
Overweight persons - Civil rights - United States Discrimination - Law and legislation - United States Overweight persons - Social aspects - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Asks
Draws about adding antidiscrimination asking boundaries brought cases citizens currently disability first gender laws legal like lists little-known need protected provocative questions race raised rest that they traits weight where |
ISBN |
0-8147-4907-0
0-8147-4819-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: The challenge of difference -- Imagining legal protections for fatness -- Shifting the blame -- Balancing functional individuals and embedded selves -- Governing risk : medicalization and normalization -- Accomodating fatness -- Conclusion: What is worth wanting in American antidiscrimination law? |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781915703321 |
Kirkland Anna Rutherford
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New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
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From Laboratory Studies to Court Evidence: Challenges in Forensic Entomology |
Autore | Charabidze Damien |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 electronic resource (255 p.) |
Soggetto topico | Psychology |
Soggetto non controllato |
Diptera
identification forensic entomology funerary archaeoentomology crime scene autopsy cooling period entomological evidence expertise casework court criminal justice systems expert witness insect evidence research postmortem interval development succession species identification animal carcass cadaver decaying substrate insect succession successional studies vertebrate decomposition animal carcasses bait attraction ADD TBS PMI colonisation temperature medico-legal entomology time of colonization accumulated degree day estimates length-weight estimates species interactions Calliphoridae legislation expert witness statement criteria limitations thanatology confession post-mortem interval carrion larva first record barcoding DNA integrative taxonomy arthropods burial decay insects pig biological variation death time estimation alternative storage carrion insects validation minimum postmortem interval (PMI-min) rearing calliphoridae Lucilia sericata climate change global warming Fanniidae larval morphology human cadaver Forensic Entomology Spain experimental studies cases cold cases hair evidence |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Altri titoli varianti | From Laboratory Studies to Court Evidence |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910674056103321 |
Charabidze Damien
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Basel, Switzerland, : MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2021 | ||
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Raising freedom's child [[electronic resource] ] : Black children and visions of the future after slavery / / Mary Niall Mitchell |
Autore | Mitchell Mary Niall |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 371.829/96073075 |
Collana | American history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
African American children - History - 19th century
Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Americans
Analyzes array black cases child--letters childrens citizenship classification columns contested court debates defended dizzying education illustrate labor moreto newspaper over photographs racial representations sharp slavery tracing |
ISBN |
0-8147-6442-8
0-8147-9570-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Emigration : a good and delicious country -- Reading race : rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed -- Civilizing missions : Miss Harriet W. Murray, Elsie, and Puss -- Labor : Tillie Bell's song -- Schooling : we ought to be one people -- Conclusion : some mighty morning. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910781911603321 |
Mitchell Mary Niall
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New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
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Raising freedom's child : Black children and visions of the future after slavery / / Mary Niall Mitchell |
Autore | Mitchell Mary Niall |
Edizione | [1st ed.] |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2008 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (336 p.) |
Disciplina | 371.829/96073075 |
Collana | American history and culture |
Soggetto topico |
African American children - History - 19th century
Enslaved persons - Emancipation - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Americans
Analyzes array black cases child--letters childrens citizenship classification columns contested court debates defended dizzying education illustrate labor moreto newspaper over photographs racial representations sharp slavery tracing |
ISBN |
0-8147-6442-8
0-8147-9570-6 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Emigration : a good and delicious country -- Reading race : rosebloom and pure white, or so it seemed -- Civilizing missions : Miss Harriet W. Murray, Elsie, and Puss -- Labor : Tillie Bell's song -- Schooling : we ought to be one people -- Conclusion : some mighty morning. |
Record Nr. | UNISA-996571856803316 |
Mitchell Mary Niall
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New York, : New York University Press, c2008 | ||
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Success without victory [[electronic resource] ] : lost legal battles and the long road to justice in America / / Jules Lobel |
Autore | Lobel Jules |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2003 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (331 p.) |
Disciplina | 349.73 |
Collana | Critical America |
Soggetto topico |
Law - United States
Justice, Administration of - Political aspects Political activists - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Defeat
actually always author cases court exclusive gains legal losing mutually political provided shows some victory |
ISBN |
0-8147-6512-2
0-8147-5281-0 1-4175-8829-2 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Introduction: losers, fools, and prophets -- Can law stop war? The Constitution and Iraq -- A tradition of resistance : anti-slavery litigators and the fight for freedom -- "A fine agitation" : women's suffrage goes to court -- Plessy v. Ferguson : the fool's last battle -- Plant closing litigation : "Youngstown sure died hard" -- Politics versus law : were travelers to Cuba trading with the enemy? -- Challenging United States intervention in Central America -- End of an era: fighting U.S. action in Kosovo. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910783262403321 |
Lobel Jules
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New York, : New York University Press, c2003 | ||
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We dissent [[electronic resource] ] : talking back to the Rehnquist court : eight cases that subverted civil liberties and civil rights / / edited by Michael Avery |
Pubbl/distr/stampa | New York, : New York University Press, c2009 |
Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (246 p.) |
Disciplina | 342.7308/5 |
Altri autori (Persone) | AveryMichael <1944-> |
Soggetto topico | Civil rights - United States |
Soggetto non controllato |
Court
Courts Rehnquist Supreme adequately cases civil eight failure heard liberties protect reexamination rights suggesting under |
ISBN |
0-8147-0778-5
0-8147-0737-8 |
Formato | Materiale a stampa ![]() |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
Nota di contenuto | Alden v. Maine : sovereign immunity -- a vestige of monarchy inconsistent with democratic values / Erwin Chemerinsky -- Arkansas Educational Television Commission v. Forbes : betraying freedom of political expression and undermining democracy / Jamin Raskin -- Cuyahoga Falls v. Buckeye : the Supreme Court's "intent doctrine" - undermining viable discrimination claims and remedies for people of color / Eva Paterson and Susan Kiyomi Serrano -- United States v. Whren : The Fourth Amendment problem with pretextual traffic stops / Tracey Maclin -- County Of Sacramento v. Lewis : protecting life and liberty under the Constitution - reckless indifference to life does not shock the conscience of the Supreme Court / Michael Avery -- Chavez v. Martinez : the court fails to hold that interrogation by means of torture is unconstitutional / Marjorie Cohn -- Saucier v. Katz : qualified immunity as a doctrine of dilution of constitutional rights / David Rudovsky -- Strickland v. Washington : gutting Gideon and providing cover for incompetent counsel / Abbe Smith. |
Record Nr. | UNINA-9910780770903321 |
New York, : New York University Press, c2009 | ||
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