Jim Fisher

Forensics Under Fire

Are Bad Science and Dueling Experts Corrupting Criminal Justice?

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rutgers University Press
• None edition
• Seitenzahl: 340
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 237mm x 164mm x 25mm
• Gewicht: 630g
• ISBN-13: 9780813542713
• ISBN-10: 0813542715
• Artikelnr.: 23440944

Autorenporträt

Jim Fisher

Inhaltsangabe

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