The book will give tips on revising efficiently, writing essays under exam conditions and reading/reacting to texts under pressure, as well as giving students an idea of how exams are marked and the kind of critical thinking examiners will expect students to be able to demonstrate.
A very well-researched and engaging account of the advances and short-comings in forensic science. The chapters on what truly occurs in many county coroner's offices by medical examiners is a must read. A very disturbing account of how "science" has been misused by corrupt medical examiner's (for example, to protect guilty police officers or to prosecute innocent individuals). Specific, high-profile published cases are described and the wrong-doing clearly demonstrated as revealed in subsequent court proceedings, medical examiner retraction of statements, bodies exhumed to fing autopsies not performed at all, etc. A true thriller to read and a shocking inside view of the intersection of medical, legal, and law enforcement worlds to produce the current state of disaster, unkown to all except a few inside experts.
The human factor is the weekest link... - sadly so. I do recommend this book to all who like to read or watch police movies and thrillers - as well as to forensic investigators or amateurs - and of course, all those dealing with translations - stovokor.
The Inspector General's Report on the FBI Laboratory found a number of problems: examiners had given scientifically flawed, inaccurate, and overstated testimony under oath in court; altered the lab reports of examiners to give them a pro-prosecutorial slant; failed to document tests and examinations so their conclusions could not be properly checked. FBI lab management failed to check examinations and lab reports, allowed and inadequate record system, and had covered up incompetence instead of investigating them. This book goes beyond the IG's report thru reporting documents released under the Freedom of Information Act. The FBI lab has never agreed to real external scrutiny, never published the research data used for its forensic tests, never revealed the results of its own internal proficiency tests. This book is both educational and entertaining.
