Forensics / Richard Platt ; foreword by Kathy Reichs.
Explore the crime lab with Forensics and discover how detectives use science to solve crimes. From the scene of the crime to a criminal's conviction, discover how the marks of blood, footprints, and fingerprints can lead the police to criminals. Find out how specialists can match trace evidence, such as a single hair found on a victim, to the murderer. Learn how famous crimes were solved and,like a true detective, find out whether it was arson, poison,or murder.
Record details
- ISBN: 0753458624
- ISBN: 9780753458624
- Physical Description: 63 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm.
- Publisher: Boston, Mass : Kingfisher, 2005.
Content descriptions
- General Note:
- Includes index.
- Formatted Contents Note:
- Signs of the crime -- The crime scene -- Collecting evidence -- Photography -- Telltale marks -- Finding a body -- Lifting prints -- Showing the invisible -- Summary -- Who is it? -- Evidence from blood -- DNA analysis -- Teeth and bones -- Making faces -- Matching fingerprints -- Unknown culprit -- Proof of guilt -- Summary -- Crime lab -- The autopsy -- How did they die? -- Trace evidence -- Dirty proof -- Computers and crime -- Bombs and fires -- Drugs and poisons -- Weapons -- Fakes and forgeries -- Summary.
- Target Audience Note:
- IG1100L Lexile
- Study Program Information Note:
- Accelerated Reader AR MG 8 3 103496.
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