Fisher, Jim,  1939- <br/><br/>
Forensics under fire  are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? /  [electronic resource] : 
Jim Fisher. 
 - New Brunswick, N.J. :  Rutgers University Press,  c2008. 
 - xi, 324 p. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><br/>Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Criminal investigation--United States.<br/>Crime scene searches--United States.<br/>Forensic sciences--United States.<br/>Evidence, Criminal--United States.
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<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>HV8073  / .F522 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>363.25