Murder, kidnapping, the evidence of crimes committed--it's front-page news and the subject of countless popular films and television shows. But as these portrayals reveal, the path from crime to conviction is never straight and smooth, and much controversy and skepticism swirls around claims of evidence and innocence. In Searching for Clues: Problems in Forensic Science, Jim Fisher takes us on a journey through cases in which the details of true crime remain obscure. While convictions may have been handed down, or the guilty set free, the facts of many case are fraught with errors, corruption, misinterpretation, and false conclusions.…mehr
Murder, kidnapping, the evidence of crimes committed--it's front-page news and the subject of countless popular films and television shows. But as these portrayals reveal, the path from crime to conviction is never straight and smooth, and much controversy and skepticism swirls around claims of evidence and innocence. In Searching for Clues: Problems in Forensic Science, Jim Fisher takes us on a journey through cases in which the details of true crime remain obscure. While convictions may have been handed down, or the guilty set free, the facts of many case are fraught with errors, corruption, misinterpretation, and false conclusions.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Jim Fisher worked as a special agent, conducting criminal investigations for the FBI from 1966 to 1972. Later he taught criminal investigation, criminal law, and forensic science at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.
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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
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
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