Research Catalog

Title

Justice and nightmares : successes and failures of forensic science in Australia and New Zealand / Malcolm Brown and Paul Wilson ; contribution by Judith Whelan.

Author

Brown, Malcolm, 1947-

Publication

Kensington, NSW, Australia : New South Wales University Press ; Portland, Ore. : Available in North America through International Specialized Book Services, 1992.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Wilson, Paul R.
• Whelan, Julie

Description

xi, 228 p.; 22 cm.

Summary

Not far beyond the crossroads : A report card on forensic science -- My son! My son! : The murder of Graeme Thorne (Robert Bradley) -- How science had to catch up : Alexander McLeod-Lindsay waits 26 years for justice -- Where the adversary system worked : The prosecution of Ian Sinclair, MP, on forgery -- Without primary evidence : The conviction and exoneration of Edward Charles Splatt -- A hair-trigger verdict : Ballistics evidence in the case of Douglas Henry Rendell -- A forensic outrage : The Azaria Chamberlain case (Lindy & -- Deviants on the rampage : The murder of Peter Aston (Robin Reid & Paule Wayne Luckman) -- One murder two confessions : Linguistics evidence in the case of Kelvin Condren -- Bondage and discipline gone wrong : The death of Peter Plumley Walker (Renee Chignell & Neville Walker) -- Injustice nipped in the bud : The persecution of Harry 'the Hat' Blackburn.

Subject

• Criminal investigation > Australia
• Forensic sciences > Australia
• Criminal investigation > New Zealand
• Forensic sciences > New Zealand

Genre/Form

Case studies

Note

• Includes index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Not far beyond the crossroads : A report card on forensic science -- My son! My son! : The murder of Graeme Thorne (Robert Bradley) -- How science had to catch up : Alexander McLeod-Lindsay waits 26 years for justice -- Where the adversary system worked : The prosecution of Ian Sinclair, MP, on forgery -- Without primary evidence : The conviction and exoneration of Edward Charles Splatt -- A hair-trigger verdict : Ballistics evidence in the case of Douglas Henry Rendell -- A forensic outrage : The Azaria Chamberlain case (Lindy & -- Deviants on the rampage : The murder of Peter Aston (Robin Reid & Paule Wayne Luckman) -- One murder two confessions : Linguistics evidence in the case of Kelvin Condren -- Bondage and discipline gone wrong : The death of Peter Plumley Walker (Renee Chignell & Neville Walker) -- Injustice nipped in the bud : The persecution of Harry 'the Hat' Blackburn.

ISBN

0868400610

LCCN

^^^93119641^

OCLC

• 27575294
• SCSB-10537628

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library