TY  - BOOK
AU  - Fisher,Jim
ED  - ebrary, Inc.
TI  - Forensics under fire: are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? 
AV  - HV8073 .F522 2008eb
U1  - 363.25 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - New Brunswick, N.J.
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - Criminal investigation
KW  - United States
KW  - Crime scene searches
KW  - Forensic sciences
KW  - Evidence, Criminal
KW  - Electronic books
KW  - local
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction; Palo Alto, Calif.; ebrary; 2013; Available via World Wide Web; Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries
UR  - http://site.ebrary.com/lib/daystar/Doc?id=10231503
ER  -