30-Second Forensic Science

50 key topics revealing criminal investigation from behind the scenes, each explained in half a minute

Sue Black, Niamh Nic Daeid

• Publisher: Ivy Press
• Year: 2018
• ISBN:
  9781782407256
• Topic: Scienze sociali
• Subtopic: Criminologia

Humanity's most appalling crimes are solved by experts presenting painstakinglygathered evidence to the court of law. Investigators rely on physical, chemicaland digital clues gathered at the scene of an incidentto reconstructbeyond all reasonable doubt the events that occurred in order to bringcriminals to justice. Enter the forensic team, tasked with providingobjective recognition and identification and evaluating physicalevidence (theclues) to support known or suspected circumstances. Far from thesuper-sleuths of fiction, the real-life masters of deduction occupy a world ofdogged detection, analysing fingerprints or gait, identifying traces of toxins, drugs or explosives, matching digital data, performing anatomicaldissection, disease diagnosis, facial reconstruction and environmentalprofiling.

APPENDICES

RESOURCES

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Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
• The Body
• Biometrics
• Traces
• Physical & Chemical Analysis
• Natural Science Evidence
• Digital Records
• The Law & Science
• Appendices
• Dedication
• Copyright