Crime Scenes: Revealing the Science Behind the Evidence
Sep 2006 · Arcturus Publishing
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In the fight against crime, science and technology now play the leading role in many of the big police investigations making news headlines. All criminals leave a little of themselves behind at the scene of their crimes and that is their undoing once CSIs start uncovering trails of clues hidden in blood or fragments of DNA. This book lets you in on the secrets of criminal investigators as well as the cutting-edge techniques science has brought to police work.
In the following pages you will discover:
How evidence is collected and analyzed
What clues can be obtained from a crime scene and a corpse
What happens at an autopsy
How a pathologist determines the time and cause of death
How DNA, toxicology, trace evidence analysis and forensic entomology can break an airtight alibi
How forensic science has been used to overturn a wrongful conviction and expose a serious miscarriage of justice
Insights into real cases taken from the files of law enforcement agencies around the world, many of them appearing in print for the first time
Investigative journalist Paul Roland delves into every major category of crime, sifting through all the evidence to present a compelling blood-spattered history of crime scenes past and present.
In the following pages you will discover:
How evidence is collected and analyzed
What clues can be obtained from a crime scene and a corpse
What happens at an autopsy
How a pathologist determines the time and cause of death
How DNA, toxicology, trace evidence analysis and forensic entomology can break an airtight alibi
How forensic science has been used to overturn a wrongful conviction and expose a serious miscarriage of justice
Insights into real cases taken from the files of law enforcement agencies around the world, many of them appearing in print for the first time
Investigative journalist Paul Roland delves into every major category of crime, sifting through all the evidence to present a compelling blood-spattered history of crime scenes past and present.
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33 reviews
Annie Whittenham
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June 16, 2016
Very interesting book about forensic science and it's history and evolution into it's current cult status. The case files, historic and some more recent, are absolutely fascinating. You should definitely read this if you like CSI, NCIS, Bones etc. Or if you like reading true crime stories.
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Chris Sr
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June 28, 2018
This is a very good and well written book. I like watching true crime tv
shows like Investigation Discovery and Forensic Files. As I was reading the
book I could remember seeing these cases on tv.
3 people found this review helpful
Sarah Dyson
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February 24, 2015
Didn't keep me enthralled!
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About the author
Paul Roland is the author of more than twenty books including recently Investigating the Unexplained, Crime Scenes, In the Minds of Murderers, The Complete Book of Ghosts, The Crimes of Jack the Ripper, The Nazis and the Occult, and Hauntings. He is currently researching a history of the Third Reich. Paul has been a freelance feature writer and reviewer for many UK publications for over twenty-five years and a regular contributor to The Mail on Sunday, Kerrang and Total Film.
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