TY - BOOK AU - Fisher,Jim ED - ProQuest (Firm) TI - Forensics under fire: are bad science and dueling experts corrupting criminal justice? AV - HV8073 .F522 2008 U1 - 363.25 22 PY - 2008/// CY - New Brunswick, N.J. PB - Rutgers University Press KW - Criminal investigation KW - United States KW - Crime scene searches KW - Forensic sciences KW - Evidence, Criminal KW - Electronic books N1 - Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-324) and index; 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; Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries UR - https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/bacm-ebooks/detail.action?docID=348830 ER -