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.

ISBN:

9780753458624