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Author
Publisher
Thomas Dunne Books
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
This book reveals how forensic experts read the story of a murder told in the traces of blood left behind, providing crucial evidence that has helped convict criminals who might have otherwise walked free. When the author began his career in law enforcement, virtually no police force in the world knew how to correctly examine blood spatter. He spent years studying and testing how blood behaves, pioneering a vital new tool that is now a part of any...
Author
Publisher
Basic Books
Pub. Date
[1991]
Language
English
Description
"Expert" witnesses claim a luxury car accelerates when you step on the brake, though no defect is ever found. Whooping cough vaccine, said to cause brain damage and death, is almost removed from the market, though thirty years of epidemiological studies attest to its safety. Cerebral palsy cases, using electronic fetal monitoring (EFM) as evidence, flood the courts, despite overwhelming proof that EFM does not reduce birth defects. Spurious claims...
Author
Publisher
ReganBooks, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Pub. Date
[1997]
Language
English
Description
Lawyers often refer to them as "prostitutes" or "whores." They are the growing ranks of clinical psychiatrists, psychologists, social workers, and other mental health professionals who give expert testimony in our courtrooms today. And in far too many cases their testimony - on subjects as varied as determination of competency, dangerousness, parental fitness, custody, personal injury, memory, sentencing, and rehabilitation - helps determine the final...
Author
Publisher
University of California Press
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
"Listening to Killers offers an inside look at twenty years' worth of murder files from Dr. James Garbarino, a leading expert psychological witness who listens to killers so that he can testify in court. The author offers detailed accounts of how killers travel a path that leads from childhood innocence to lethal violence in adolescence or adulthood. He places the emotional and moral damage of each individual killer within a larger scientific framework...
Publisher
Koch Vision
Pub. Date
[2008]
Language
English
Description
When an accused rapist confesses to brutally murdering his family in a small Texas town, the authorities call on renowned clinical psychologist/profiler Dr. Tony Hill to testify as an expert witness. Alone in a strange country, Dr. Hill finds himself at the center of a maelstrom of controversy, cover-ups and capital punishment. There are many dark secrets in this town, and someone is willing to kill in order to keep them buried.