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The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation eBook
by Ngaire E. Genge
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The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation Summary
| The Ultimate Readers' Guide to the Art of Forensics! An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect's wool jacket. A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer's precise geographical path. A gluttonous criminal's fingerprints are lifted from a chocolate truffle.... Filled with these and many other intriguing true stories, and packed with black and white illustrations and photographs, The Forensic Casebook draws on interviews with police personnel and forensic scientists--including animal examiners, botanists, zoologists, firearms specialists, and autoposists--to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopedic in scope, this riveting, authoritative book leaves no aspect of forensic science untouched, covering such fascinating topics as:ò Securing a crime sceneò Identifying blood splatter patternsò Collecting fingerprints--and feet, lip, and ear printsò Interpreting the stages of a body's decayò Examining hair and fiber evidenceò Trace evidence from firearms and explosivesò "Lifting" DNA printsò Computer crime and forensic photographyò Career paths in criminal scienceLucidly written and spiked with real crime stories, The Forensic Casebook exposes the nitty gritty that other books only touch upon. Here is a reference book as addictive as a page-turning novel of suspense. |
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