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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 614.1
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Berkley Trade
Manufacturer: Berkley Trade
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 384
Publication Date: August 07, 2007
Publisher: Berkley Trade
Sales Rank: 250448
Studio: Berkley Trade
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Product Description:
Updated with new material, this collection vividly depicts the horrendous crimes, colorful detectives, and grueling investigations that shaped the science of forensics. In concise, fascinating detail, Colin Evans shows how far forensic science has come from Sherlock Holmes's magnifying glass. No crime in this book is ordinary, and many of the perpetrators are notorious: Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, John List, Bruno Hauptmann, Jeffrey Macdonald, and Wayne Williams among others. Along with the cases solved, fifteen forensic techniques are covered- including fingerprinting, ballistics, toxicology, DNA analysis, and psychological profiling, methods that have increased the odds that today's technosleuths will get the bad guys, clear the innocent-and bring justice to the victims and their families.
Amazon.com Review:
Anyone can summarize a collection of cases, but not everyone can make them read well. With a flair for compressed narrative worthy of a good short story writer, Colin Evans entertains and instructs the reader with 100 cases that exemplify the use of 15 different forensic techniques (ballistics, fingerprinting). Some (like the Lindbergh case) are famous, others are barely known, yet each has some unique twist that sets it apart. Many "firsts" are included, such as the first murder conviction without a body, the first use of psychological profiling, and the first use of DNA typing. Evans also brings out the distinct (often flamboyant) personalities of the pioneering experts of forensics and some of their more notable courtroom theatrics. Each case is labeled by name of criminal, forensic technique, date, location, and significant feature(s), making this a useful reference as well as a fun book to read.
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This is a good book for the reader who wants to read about some real life crime stories and how they are solved.
Also a useful read for someone looking for a good real crime story, to buy ANOTHER book to read further about it.
Personally I found this book entertaining and read it with interest, because i mostly get bored with a crime story that covers a whole book, that goes on and on about what the neighbor' s wife told the police about what her husband told her that he saw and all the ... Read More
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The casebook of Forensic Detection is a very detailed book with great description.My daughter enjoyed it very much.
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The book is very complete in the author's normal style. The cases are sorted according to forensic evidence type. Most of the cases are pretty old though.
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I bought this one along with another forensics book when she first started showing an interest in forensics. The other book failed where this one succeeded. The material was written well enough to catch her interest, and the stories were well told. As far as forensic detail, she said it was a little lacking, but that it was still fun to read and kept her interested in the subject. If you're looking for textbook type writing, this isn't it. It's not a research tool. But it is fun, and it should make ... Read More
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This casebook is written to be very specific to how an individual was caught and nothing more. For example: Ted Bundy was caught in large part by the bite mark evidence collected from the Chi Omega Sorority house victims. So, the case covers that incident; however, leaves no mention of twelve-year-old Kimberly Leach, in my opinion, had a great deal to do with his execution in Florida's electric chair.
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