Forensics under fire are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? - Fisher, Jim, 1939-; ebrary, Inc. (New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, 2008)
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.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index.
Electronic reproduction.
Keywords: Criminal investigation -- United States; Crime scene searches -- United States; Forensic sciences -- United States; Evidence, Criminal -- United States; Electronic books