forensic ballistics

"Find out about the techniques and tools ballistics experts use to help bring even the toughest cases to a close"--Provided by publisher.

This book uses true life crime stories from early cases like the St. Valentine's Day Massacre to more recent war crimes in Croatia to engage readers while educating them on forensic firearm analysis, which includes identifying basic types of firearms and bullets, matching bullet too lmarks to a specific gun, and gathering crime scene evidence.

Readers learn both how ballistics research is performed and how law enforcement officials use these findings to solve crimes.

Examines medical, acoustic, and film records, as well as eyewitness reports regarding the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963 in an attempt to apply the laws of science to questions of whether there was more than one shooter involved in the killing.

An introduction to forensic ballistics that discusses the history of the science, rifling patterns, how forensic ballistic analysts determine what type of firearm was used, gunshot residue, trajectory analysis, and other related topics.

Providing examples from specific cases, this book discusses ballistics evidence as a tool in solving crimes.

A collection of comics that explore how police detectives use ballistic evidence to reconstruct and solve different types of crimes.

Provides an introduction to the field of forensics, focusing on the work done by ballistic investigators, identifying the skills, education, and training needed to do the job, discussing opportunities and future trends in the field, and including a look at a typical on-the-job experience.

Profiles famous cases solved by forensic firearm identification; including the St. Valentine's Day Massacre and the 2002 sniper attacks in Washington, D.C.; and explores the career of a firearm examiner.