Forensics Under Fire

Jim Fisher worked as a special agent, conducting criminal investigations for the FBI from 1966 to 1972. Later he taught criminal investigation, criminal law, and forensic science at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

• Forensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown casesA question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of deathThe sudden infant death debate Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and Meadow's lawInfants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation?Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide?Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradiseFingerprints never lie : except in ScotlandShoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysisBite mark identification : do teeth leave prints?Ear-mark identification : emerging science or bad evidence?Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey caseJohn Mark Karr : DNA Trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey caseHair and fiber identification : the inexact scienceDNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified peopleBullet identification : FBI style overselling the scienceThe celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee

"Well-written and captivating-a fine book." - Captain Robert L. Snow (author of Technology and Law Enforcement, Murder 101, Sex Crimes Investigation) "This scholarly and well-researched work shines a light on the dark side of forensic science to expose the enormous damage inflicted on the criminal justice system by rogue and dishonest forensic practitioners." - Richard Saferstein, (author of Criminalists: An Introduction to Forensic Science) "Well-written and captivating-a fine book." - Captain Robert L. Snow (author of Technology and Law Enforcement, Murder 101, Sex Crimes Investigation) "This scholarly and well-researched work shines a light on the dark side of forensic science to expose the enormous damage inflicted on the criminal justice system by rogue and dishonest forensic practitioners." - Richard Saferstein, (author of Criminalists: An Introduction to Forensic Science)