Criminalistics: Forensic Science and CrimeCriminalistics: Forensic Science and Crime gives readers an in-depth overview of this hot-button topic and explores the various tasks and actions that take place in crime scenes and laboratories all across the world today. It places criminalistics within the framework of basic chemistry and biology and clearly explains processes to readers with little or no scientific background. Using a unified approach that blends science with criminal justice, this text helps readers understand the necessities and processes of forensic science in the ever-advancing world of crime investigation. |
Contents
Chapter | 3 |
Introduction to Criminalistics | 10 |
Systematic Search for Evidence | 13 |
CHAPTER 1 | 16 |
Criminal Evidence and the Fourth Amendment | 20 |
Wrap | 26 |
Investigating and Processing Physical Evidence | 30 |
CHAPTER 3 | 42 |
Wrap | 218 |
Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table | 224 |
The Composition of Petroleum | 253 |
Drugs of Abuse | 268 |
248 | 286 |
Biological Evidence | 302 |
Analysis of Flammable Residue | 303 |
Introduction | 310 |
Forensic Characterization of Soil | 60 |
Introduction | 62 |
Soil | 69 |
CHAPTER 5 | 71 |
Wrap | 76 |
Hair and Fibers | 87 |
Wrap | 104 |
Forensic Analysis of Glass | 108 |
CHAPTER 6 | 129 |
Questioned Documents | 156 |
Questioned Documents | 158 |
Firearms | 184 |
158 | 198 |
Security Printing | 212 |
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Criminalistics: Forensic Science, Crime and Terrorism James E. Girard,James Girard Limited preview - 2011 |
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