Title:
Forensics
Personal Author EPSB:
Summary:
Explores crime labs and describes how detectives use science to solve crimes.
Year Published:
2005
Series:
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
ISBN:
9780753458624
Publisher:
Boston, Mass. : Kingfisher, 2005.
