| Edition |
3rd edition. |
| Description |
xxix, 898 pages : color illustrations ; 29 cm + wraparound teacher's edition |
| Note |
Includes index. |
| Summary |
"With popular television programs, movies, and books about criminal justice and crime scene investigation, students often have a passion for exploring forensic science. Now that excitement can be guided into valuable learning experiences with the help of Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations, 3e. This dynamic, visually powerful text has been carefully crafted to ensure solid scientific content and an approach that delivers precisely what is needed for high school courses. Now an established best-seller, Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations offers a truly experiential approach that engages students in active learning and emphasizes the application of integrated science. Student materials combine math, chemistry, biology, physics, and earth science with content aligned to the Next Generation Science Standards. Capstone projects integrate the concepts learned throughout the text. Comprehensive, time-saving teacher support and lab activities deliver exactly what is needed to ensure that students receive a solid, integrated science education that keeps readers engaged at all learning levels. Supported by MindTap with an eBook, online assessments, Interactive Labs, and Virtual Labs, students learn content and practice skills like real forensic scientists"--Www.cenage.com |
| Contents |
Forensic science and observation -- Crime-scene investigation and evidence collection -- Hair analysis -- Fiber analysis -- Forensic botany -- Fingerprints -- DNA profiling -- Blood and blood spatter -- Forensic toxicology -- Handwriting analysis, forgery, and counterfeiting -- Forensic entomology -- Death: manner, mechanism, cause -- Soil evidence -- Forensic anthropology -- Glass evidence -- Casts and impressions -- Tool marks -- Firearms and ballistics. |
| Subject |
Forensic sciences -- Textbooks.
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Forensic sciences. |
| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Subject |
Criminal investigation -- Textbooks.
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Criminal investigation. |
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Crime scene searches -- Textbooks.
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Crime scene searches. |
| Genre/Form |
Textbooks.
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| Added Author |
Bertino, Patricia Nolan, author.
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| ISBN |
9780357124987 hardcover |
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0357124987 hardcover |
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9780357361726 wraparound teacher's edition |
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0357361725 wraparound teacher's edition |
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