Forensics

Title
Forensics

Personal Author EPSB
Richard. Platt

Summary
Explores crime labs and describes how detectives use science to solve crimes.

Year Published
2005

Series
Kingfisher knowledge

Physical Description
63 p. : ill. (chiefly col.) ; 28 cm.

Note
Includes index.

Contents
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

Grade Interest level
5-9

Program Information
Evidence and Investigation Gr. 6+
 
Accelerated Reader MG 8.0 3.0 103496
 
Accelerated Reader AR Middle Grades 8 3 quiz: 103496 disk(s): Custom
 
Reading Counts RC 6-8 8.60 6 quiz: 39153

Subject
Criminal investigation.
 
Forensic sciences.

Summary
Explores crime labs and describes how detectives use science to solve crimes.

ISBN
9780753458624

Publisher
Boston, Mass. : Kingfisher, 2005.


LibraryCall NumberTypeItem BarcodeStatus
Elmwood363 PLABook30204000078925Non-Fiction