The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation Book

Filled with 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 autopsists - to uncover the vast and detailed under workings of criminal investigation. Encyclopaedic in scope this riveting authoritative book leaves no aspect of forensic science untouched covering such fascinating topics as: Securing a crime scene; Identifying blood splatter patterns; Collecting fingerprints-and feet lip and ear prints *'Lifting' DNA prints; Examining hair and fibre evidence; Interpreting the stages of a body's decay; Computer crime and forensic photography; Career paths in criminal science. Lucidly written and spiked with real crime stories The Forensic Casebook exposes the nitty-gritty that other books only touch upon.