Forensics under fire : are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? /

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Author / Creator:	Fisher, Jim, 1939- author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 324 pages)
Language:	English
Series:	Book collections on Project MUSE. UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. Archive Political Science and Policy Studies Foundation.
Subject:	Criminal investigation -- United States. Crime scene searches -- United States. Forensic sciences -- United States. Evidence, Criminal -- United States. Crime scene searches. Criminal investigation. Evidence, Criminal. Forensic sciences. United States. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11172354

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ISBN:	9780813544243 0813544246 0813542715 9780813542713 1281397229 9781281397225
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. In English. Print version record.
Summary:	Television shows like CSI, Forensic Files, and The New Detectives make it look so easy. A crime-scene photographer snaps photographs, a fingerprint technician examines a gun, uniformed officers seal off a house while detectives gather hair and blood samples, placing them carefully into separate evidence containers. In a crime laboratory, a suspect?s hands are meticulously examined for gunshot residue. An autopsy is performed in order to determine range and angle of the gunshot and time-of-death evidence. Dozens of tests and analyses are performed and cross-referenced. A conviction is made. Ano.
Other form:	Print version: Fisher, Jim, 1939- Forensics under fire. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2008 9780813542713 0813542715
Standard no.:	9786611397227 10.36019/9780813544243.

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