Title: Criminal investigative failures /
Authors: Rossmo, D. Kim
Publisher: CRC Press,
Year: 2009
Subjects: Criminal investigation; Forensic sciences.; Crime scene searches.; Evidence, Criminal.; Criminal justice, Administration of.; Judicial error.
Contents: Introduction / D. Kim Rossmo -- Cognitive biases : perception, intuition, and tunnel vision / D. Kim Rossmo -- Organizational traps : rumor, ego, and groupthink / D. Kim Rossmo -- Errors in probability : chance and randomness in forensics and profiling / D. Kim Rossmo -- Cognitive biases in human perception, judgment, and decision making : bridging theory and the real world / Itiel E. Dror and Peter A. F. Fraser-Mackenzie -- Bounded rationality and criminal investigations : has tunnel vision been wrongfully convicted? / Brent Snook and Richard M. Cullen -- On the horns of a narrative : judgment, heuristics, and biases in criminal investigation / David Stubbins and Nelson Stubbins -- Who killed Stephanie Crowe? / Gregg McCrary -- Milgaard v. the queen : understanding a wrongful conviction for sexual homicide / Neil Boyd and D. Kim Rossmo -- A false confession to murder in Washington, DC / James Trainum and Diana Havlin -- What happened to Theresa Allore? / John Allore and Patricia Pearson -- Wrongful innocence claims : Roger Coleman and Benjamin Laguer / D. Kim Rossmo -- How police departments can reduce the risk of wrongful convictions / Doug LePard and Elizabeth Campbell -- Reducing investigative failures through effective major case leadership / John C. House, Joseph Eastwood, and Brent Snook -- Necropsies and the cold case / Jason Roach and Ken Pease -- Recommendations and conclusion / D. Kim Rossmo.