Criminalistics: Forensic Science and Crime

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Jones & Bartlett Learning, 2006 - Law - 482 pages
Criminalistics: 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
Blood Semen Saliva and an Introduction to DNA
328
SECTION 6
337
DNA Genes and Chromosomes
344
Short Tandem Repeats
365
CHAPTER 15
393
CHAPTER 16
411
Detecting Weapons of Mass Destruction
422
Forensic Science Resources
446
Glossary
453
Index
464
190
466
Revolvers
476
Credits
480
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