Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science

by David A. Harris

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0814790550
• ISBN13: 9780814790557
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: New York University Press
• Length: 269 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"