Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic ScienceA textbook that presents the techniques, skills, and limitations of the modern crime laboratory, for students (or others, including criminal investigators) who have no background in the forensic sciences. The nature of physical evidence is emphasized. This edition (fourth was 1990) is updated with the current technologies available to crime laboratory personnel. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
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... criminal investiga- tion was written by Hans Gross in 1893. Gross , a public prosecutor and judge in Graz , Austria , spent many years studying and develop- ing principles of criminal investigation . In his classic book , Hand- buch für ...
... criminal investiga- tion was written by Hans Gross in 1893. Gross , a public prosecutor and judge in Graz , Austria , spent many years studying and develop- ing principles of criminal investigation . In his classic book , Hand- buch für ...
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... criminal investigators and police administrators will be recruited . For the forensic scientist , parti- cipation in ... criminal investigation . Of course education alone will not guarantee the success of the criminal investigator or ...
... criminal investigators and police administrators will be recruited . For the forensic scientist , parti- cipation in ... criminal investigation . Of course education alone will not guarantee the success of the criminal investigator or ...
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... investigative agencies that it services . If all or even most of the burglaries , homicides , assaults , rapes , and other types of major offenses were investigated with the thoroughness expected of a proper criminal investigation , the ...
... investigative agencies that it services . If all or even most of the burglaries , homicides , assaults , rapes , and other types of major offenses were investigated with the thoroughness expected of a proper criminal investigation , the ...
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