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

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Author / Creator:Fisher, Jim, 1939-
Imprint:New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
Description:xi, 324 p. ; 24 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6829578
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ISBN:9780813542713 (hardcover : alk. paper)
0813542715 (hardcover : alk. paper)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-316) and index.

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505 0 |a 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? -- Earmark identification : emerging science or bad evidence? -- Expert vs. expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case -- John Mark Karr : DNA trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case -- Hair and fiber identification : an inexact science -- DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people -- Bullet identification, FBI style : overselling the science -- The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee. 
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