| Description |
ix, 329 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
All our yesterdays -- Beginnings -- Who was that masked man? -- The size of the head, the shape of the ears -- Dabs -- The fickle finger -- With a bullet -- The footprints of a gigantic hound -- He's dead Jim -- Inheritance powder -- Blood will tell -- DNA will tell more -- Bones and bugs -- The eyewitness and others -- Junk science -- A double-breasted suit -- A burning desire |
| Notes |
From review:"...covers the basic techniques of forensics, from fingerprinting and ballistics to blood spatter analysis and DNA. Each of the founding fathers gets his due: French ex-criminal-turned-detective Eugène François Vidocq, the inspiration for Poe's fictional Dupin and the first to index criminals; Alphonse Bertillon, another Frenchman and the inventor of anthropometrics (or Bertillonage), which identified criminals by physical measurements; and Edward Henry and Juan Vucetich, who, in the late 19th century, developed independently of each other the first reliable methods of classifying fingerprints. Each breakthrough is punctuated by cases illustrating its usefulness, such as computerized fingerprint databases, which led to the 1989 arrest of Night Stalker Richard Ramirez..." |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references 9 pages 311) and index |
| Subject |
Evidence, Criminal -- United States.
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Evidence, Expert -- United States.
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Forensic sciences.
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| LC no. |
2009022386 |
| ISBN |
1566638038 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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9781566638036 (cloth : alk. paper) |
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