Forensics under fire are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? /
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New Brunswick, N.J. :
Rutgers University Press,
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10231503 |
Table of 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?
- 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.