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Blood, powder, and residue : how crime labs translate evidence into proof
Title:
Blood, powder, and residue : how crime labs translate evidence into proof
Author:
Bechky, Beth A., author.
ISBN:
9780691183589
Personal Author:
Physical Description:
xi, 227 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Abstract:
A professor of sociology at New York University draws on months of rigorous fieldwork in a crime lab to describe the stories of forensic scientists who struggle to provided unbiased science while under intense pressure from lawyers and public scrutiny.