Forensic science under siege : the challenges of forensic laboratories and the medico-legal death investigation system /
Forensic science laboratories' reputations have increasingly come under fire. Incidents of tainted evidence, false reports, allegations of negligence, scientifically flawed testimony, or - worse yet - perjury in in-court testimony, have all served to cast a shadow over the forensic sciences. In...
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Amsterdam ; Boston :
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Table of Contents:
- Forensic science: celebrated and vilified
- The stakeholders in forensic science: roles, perspectives, and expectations
- An introduction to the U.S. forensic laboratory system
- The U.S. forensic laboratory system under siege
- The reality of the U.S. forensic laboratory system
- An introduction to the U.S. medico-legal death investigation system
- The U.S. medico-legal death investigation system under siege
- The real story of the U.S. medico-legal death investigation system
- The courts: battlefield for the truth and a changing paradigm
- Not all science is created equal
- DNA: convicting the guilty, exonerating the innocent
- The evidence trilogy and forensic science
- The stakeholders in court: judges, juries, experts, and attorneys
- The champions of forensic science: advocacy and funding efforts
- The road to redemption: an agenda for reform
- New initiatives and the future of forensic science
- Looking out for decedents and defendants: taking a cue from health care.
