Fabricant M. Chris
Fabricant M. Chris - Junk Science And The American Criminal Justice System - Paperback
Fabricant M. Chris - Junk Science And The American Criminal Justice System - Paperback
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Description: From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in 'expert witnesses and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today condemned by junk science. In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science and three men each convicted of capital murder became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the 'science that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. At turns gripping enraging illuminating and moving Junk Science is a meticulously re - searched insider's perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions corrupt prosecutors and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant's true crime narrative. The paperback edition features a brand - new index as well as an updated introduction and final chapter chronicling the Innocence Project's continued fight against junk science in courtrooms across America.
Title: Junk Science And The American Criminal Justice System
Author(s): Fabricant M. Chris
Publisher: Akashic Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781636141350
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Social Services & Welfare, Criminology
Description: From CSI to Forensic Files to the celebrated reputation of the FBI crime lab forensic scientists have long been mythologized in American popular culture as infallible crime solvers. Juries put their faith in 'expert witnesses and innocent people have been executed as a result. Innocent people are still on death row today condemned by junk science. In 2012, the Innocence Project began searching for prisoners convicted by junk science and three men each convicted of capital murder became M. Chris Fabricant's clients. Junk Science and the American Criminal Justice System chronicles the fights to overturn their wrongful convictions and to end the use of the 'science that destroyed their lives. Weaving together courtroom battles from Mississippi to Texas to New York City and beyond Fabricant takes the reader on a journey into the heart of a broken racist system of justice and the role forensic science plays in maintaining the status quo. At turns gripping enraging illuminating and moving Junk Science is a meticulously re - searched insider's perspective of the American criminal justice system. Previously untold stories of wrongful executions corrupt prosecutors and quackery masquerading as science animate Fabricant's true crime narrative. The paperback edition features a brand - new index as well as an updated introduction and final chapter chronicling the Innocence Project's continued fight against junk science in courtrooms across America.
Title: Junk Science And The American Criminal Justice System
Author(s): Fabricant M. Chris
Publisher: Akashic Books U. S.
Barcode: 9781636141350
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 8/22/2023
Category: Social Services & Welfare, Criminology
