Description
Forensic Science: An Introduction to Scientific and Investigative Techniques, Sixth Edition covers a full range of fundamental, cutting-edge topics essential to modern forensic casework and investigation. The new edition is fully updated to outline best practicesâincluding recent technology and techniquesâproviding an engaging account of current advances in the field.
Going beyond theory to application, Forensic Science begins by discussing the intersection of law and forensic science, how things become evidence, and how courts decide if an item or testimony is admissible. It presents the broadest array of forensic disciplines among available textbooks on the market, addressing forensic anthropology, death investigation (including anthropology and entomology), bloodstain pattern analysis, firearms, tool marks, and forensic analysis of questioned documents, among others. Students follow evidence all the way from the crime scene into laboratory analys
