Failed evidence: Why law enforcement resists science

Failed Evidence: Why Law Enforcement Resists Science

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 1-259

  Harris, David A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

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