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

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Main Author: Fisher, Jim, 1939-
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2008.
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245 1 0 |a Forensics under fire  |h [electronic resource] :  |b are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? /  |c Jim Fisher. 
260 |a New Brunswick, N.J. :  |b Rutgers University Press,  |c c2008. 
300 |a xi, 324 p. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index. 
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? -- 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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650 0 |a Forensic sciences  |z United States. 
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