Failed Evidence
Why Law Enforcement Resists Science
With the popularity of crime dramas like CSI focusing on forensic science, and increasing numbers of police and prosecutors making wide-spread use of DNA, high-tech science seems to have become the handmaiden of law enforcement. But this is a myth,asserts law professor and nationally known expert on police profiling David A. Harris. In fact, most of law enforcement does not embrace science-it rejects it instead, resisting it vigorously. The question at the heart of this book is why. Eyewitness identifications procedures using simultaneous lineups-showing the witness six persons together,as police have traditionally done-produces a significant…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8147-9056-4
- EAN: 9780814790564
- Produktnummer: 22583249
- Verlag: NYU Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2012
- Seitenangabe: 269 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 2'788 KB
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