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
Investigating the Crime Scene | 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 | 31 |
CHAPTER 3 | 59 |
Semiautomatic Pistols | 231 |
The Composition of Petroleum | 253 |
Drugs of Abuse | 268 |
248 | 286 |
Biological Evidence | 302 |
Collection and Preservation of Arson Evidence 259 | 303 |
Introduction | 310 |
Blood Semen Saliva and an Introduction to DNA | 328 |
Conversion from the SI to the English System and | 65 |
Collection and Preservation of Soil Evidence | 74 |
The Microscope and Forensic Identification of Hair and Fibers | 80 |
Hair and Fibers | 87 |
CHAPTER 5 | 103 |
Wrap | 104 |
CHAPTER 6 | 129 |
Questioned Documents | 158 |
Firearms | 184 |
158 | 198 |
Security Printing | 212 |
Wrap | 218 |
Electron Configuration and the Periodic Table | 224 |
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Bibliographic information
| Title | Criminalistics: Forensic Science and Crime Criminal justice illuminated |
| Authors | James E. Girard, James Girard |
| Edition | illustrated |
| Publisher | Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2006 |
| ISBN | 0763735299, 9780763735296 |
| Length | 482 pages |
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