Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science

by David A. Harris

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: 1.17 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.4" x 9.3"