Fraudulent forensic evidence : malpractice in crime laboratories / Hasan Buker.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Buker, Nicholas Hasan, 1977-

Series:

Criminal justice (LFB Scholarly Publishing LLC)

Criminal justice : recent scholarship

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Crime laboratories--United States.

Crime laboratories.

Malpractice--United States.

Malpractice.

Evidence, Criminal--United States.

Evidence, Criminal.

Criminal investigation--United States.

Criminal investigation.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

El Paso : LFB Scholarly Pub., 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Buker tells the untold story of crime labs. Through extensive field research he scrutinizes the problem of malpractice in the US publicly-funded crime labs from an administrative perspective. Several examples of malpractice in these organizations reflect not only individual mishaps of forensic scientists working in these labs, but also organizational failures. Buker finds that elements of organizational environment and organizational behavior of the crime labs combine to create this organizational failure. He concludes with public policy suggestions to maintain and amplify the trustworthiness

Contents:

Forensic sciences and publicly-funded crime labs: an overview

Understanding breakdowns in formal organizations: developing a conceptual framework

Methodologies employed in the study

Digging deeper: scrutinizing malpractice in crime labs

Nature and etiology of malpractice in crime labs: a system failure?

Than what ...? Concluding remarks.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781593325954

1593325959

OCLC:

796999353