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Autopsy of a Crime Lab: Exposing the Flaws in Forensics / Garrett, B.L.

2021

Garrett, B.L.	Book
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Publication	California, University of California Press, 2021.
Description	252Coffee - White / Black - Coffee - Yellow - White
Summary/Abstract	This book exposes the dangerously imperfect forensic evidence that we rely on for criminal convictions."That's not my fingerprint, your honor," said the defendant, after FBI experts reported a "100-percent identification." They were wrong. It is shocking how often they are. Autopsy of a Crime Lab is the first book to catalog the sources of error and the faulty science behind a range of well-known forensic evidence, from fingerprints and firearms to forensic algorithms. In this devastating forensic takedown, noted legal expert Brandon L. Garrett poses the questions that should be asked in courtrooms every day: Where are the studies that validate the basic premises of widely accepted techniques such as fingerprinting? How can experts testify with 100 percent certainty about a fingerprint, when there is no such thing as a 100 percent match? Where is the quality control in the laboratories and at the crime scenes? Should we so readily adopt powerful new technologies like facial recognition software and rapid DNA machines? And why have judges been so reluctant to consider the weaknesses of so many long-accepted methods?Taking us into the lives of the wrongfully convicted or nearly convicted, into crime labs rocked by scandal, and onto the front lines of promising reform efforts driven by professionals and researchers alike, Autopsy of a Crime Lab illustrates the persistence and perniciousness of shaky science and its well-meaning practitioners.
Standard Number	9789391155490

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Criminal Investigation ; Forensic Science

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ID: 001586

Caucasians Only / Vose, Clement E

1967

Vose, Clement E	Book
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Edition	1
Publication	Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967.
Description	296

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B16597	342.7085/VOS	Main	On Shelf	General	R1-S1

ID: 010623

Problems of Stability and Progress in International Relations / Wright, Q

1954

Wright, Q	Book
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Publication	Berkeley, University of California Press, 1954.
Description	xiv+378

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B10238	341.3/WRI	Main	On Shelf	General	R1-S1

ID: 026843

Pure Theory of Law / Kelsen, H.; Knight, M., Tr.

1967

Kelsen, H.	Book
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Edition	2
Publication	Berkeley, University of California Press, 1967.
Description	356Sky Blue - Navy Blue
Contents	Translated from German Ed.
Standard Number	Pb.

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B43589	340.1/KEL	Main	On Shelf	General

ID: 010891

Society in India / Mandelbaum, D G

1970

Mandelbaum, D G	Book
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Berkeley, University of California Press, 1970.

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B16913	301/MAN	Main	On Shelf	General	R1-S1

ID: 007209

The Expansive Elite / Rosenthal, D B

1977

Rosenthal, D B	Book
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Publication	California, University of California Press, 1977.
Description	xiii+348

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B14349	320/ROS	Main	On Shelf	General	R1-S1

ID: 000935

The Welfare State and Equality / Wilenskty, Harold L

1975

Wilenskty, Harold L	Book
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Edition	1
Publication	Berkeley/London, University of California Press, 1975.
Description	151

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B12382	342.54/WIL	Main	On Shelf	General	R1-S1