Bodies we've buried : inside the National Forensic Academy, the world's top CSI training school / Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch ; foreword by Bill Bass.
An introduction to forensic science and its role in law enforcement goes behind the doors of the National Forensic Academy to reveal the school's intensive, ten-week training course in crime scene investigation.
Record details
- ISBN: 0425207528
- ISBN: 9780425207529
- Physical Description: xiv, 286 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : Berkley Books, c2006.
Content descriptions
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-261) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Introduction : what's in a name? -- Keep a knockin', but you can't come in : crime scene management -- Every picture tells a story : photography -- Goodwill hunting : latent print development -- Down on the farm : the body farm and time since death research -- Diggin' up bones : burial recovery -- It's a rigorous job, but somebody's got to do it : post mortem printing -- Vinyl resting place : autopsy -- Heart strings : death investigation -- Spatter up! : bloodstain pattern analysis -- Burnin' down the house : arson -- Fire in the hole! : bombs -- Hair today, court tomorrow : trace evidence. |
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| Subject: | National Forensic Academy. National Forensic Academy. Crime scene searches > United States. Criminal investigation > United States. Evidence, Criminal > United States. United States. |