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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fisher, Jim, 1939-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Criminal investigation--United States.

Criminal investigation.

Crime scene searches.

United States.

Crime scene searches--United States.

Forensic sciences--United States.

Forensic sciences.

Evidence, Criminal--United States.

Evidence, Criminal.

Physical Description:

xi, 324 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2008]

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 291-316) and index.

ISBN:

9780813542713

0813542715

OCLC:

138341133