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Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, Third Edition
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  • Authored by: Suzanne Bell, Ph.D.
  • From the Series: Science Encyclopedia
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  • ISBN-10: 143819594X
  • ISBN-13: 978-1-4381-9594-0
  • Status: In Stock
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  • Imprint: Facts On File
  • Published: 06/01/2020
  • Dewey Number: 363.25
  • Reading Level: Grades 9 and up
  • Pages: 432

Summary

Praise for the previous edition:

"...concise, easy to digest...suitable for most libraries...an excellent introduction to and starting point for research into forensic sciences." —American Reference Books Annual

"...fills the need for accessible, accurate information on a popular topic...Recommended for public and academic undergraduate libraries as well as high school libraries."—Library Journal

Now in its third edition, this comprehensive encyclopedia gathers together in one place the core topics of forensic science and provides an overview of each, with approximately 650 entries. More than 12 essays are interspersed throughout this reliable A-to-Z reference, describing how forensic science relates to areas such as drug testing in sports, privacy concerns, misconceptions about forensic science, and the interface of forensic engineering and forensic science. Encyclopedia of Forensic Science, Third Edition is richly illustrated with more than 200 black-and-white photographs and illustrations, plus a full-color insert containing photographs with depictions of firearms, tool marks, and DNA analysis. Most of the photographs were supplied by working forensic scientists in many different organizations. This essential encyclopedia will remain the ultimate primer in the subject of forensic science for high school and college students alike. 

Entries include:

  • Accidental characteristics
  • Airplane crashes
  • Alchemy
  • Anthropology, forensic
  • Birch Method
  • Bloodstain patterns
  • Robert Boyle
  • Color and colorants
  • Crime labs (forensic labs)
  • CSI and CSI effect
  • DNA wars
  • Dust analysis
  • Environmental forensics
  • Explosive power
  • Glove prints
  • Jack the Ripper
  • Lindbergh kidnapping
  • Madrid bombings
  • Albertus Magnus
  • Oaths and ordeals
  • Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy
  • Paracelsus
  • Rigor mortis
  • Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)
  • Skeletal identification
  • Sir Bernard Spilsbury
  • Vinland Map
  • Zwikker test
  • and more.

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