Editorial Review:

THE ULTIMATE READERS' GUIDE TO THE ART OF FORENSICS!
An intrepid investigator crawls through miles of air conditioning ducts to capture the implicating fibers of a suspect's wool jacket . . . A forensic entomologist discovers insects in the grill of a car and nails down a drug dealer's precise geographical path . . . A gluttonous criminal's fingerprints are lifted from a chocolate truffle. . . .
Filled with these and many other 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 autoposists--to uncover the vast and detailed underworkings of criminal investigation. Encyclopedic 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
· Interpreting the stages of a body's decay
· Examining hair and fiber evidence
· Trace evidence from firearms and explosives
· "Lifting" DNA prints
· 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. Here is a reference book as addictive as a page-turning novel of suspense.

Customer Reviews:

Avg. Customer Rating: 4.0 / 5.0

Very little fact, and many "facts" are plain wrong.:

I've had this book for quite a while, and had flipped through it a few times, but only recently actually read it straight through.
After reading it, I am not surprised to find that N.E. Genge's other writing credits include books about "Buffy the Vampire Slayer", "Charmed" and "The X-Files". The appendix containing information about the different universities and colleges offering programs in forensic science is, by far, the most informative aspect of the book.
The book itself is absolutely... more info

The Forensic Casebook: The Science of Crime Scene Investigation (Paperback):

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Good Material:

I bought this for my 15 yr old niece as a gift since she is obsessed with crime scene dramas and wants to be a forensic scientist. She says the book is "awesome."

Interesting, but useless:

I bought this book for my daughter. The idea was that she was really into forensics and wanted to learn more about the subject. Unfortunately, this book was so bad, she never finished it. I gave it to her as a research tool, and within a few weeks, she'd discovered so much from other sources that she started to doubt how informed this book was. She said it started out interesting, but as she learned more, the factual errors and inconsistencies drove her away from the book. She's still following forensics,... more info

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