crime laboratories

Discusses the role of forensic medicine in the solution of crimes and describes the jobs of various experts involved in this process.

Follows the forensic laboratory, from its simple beginnings to it current status as a high-tech scientific wonderland.

A comprehensive guide to forensic science that provides information on crime scene investigation, forensic pathology, and DNA, and explains the techniques used to gather and analyze forensic data.

While Nancy and her friends are helping with a high school "chemystery" camp that teaches how science is used to solve crimes, a real mystery involving the professor in charge begins, and Nancy takes over the made-up case and the real one.

An illustrated look at the laboratory techniques used to investigate violent crime, which explores fingerprint analysis, firearms, trace evidence, and DNA and discusses real cases.

Outlines the educational requirements, duties, salary, employment outlook, and possible future positions for crime lab technicians.

Forensic scientist Bill Bass describes his decades of work at the University of Tennessee's Anthropology Research Facility, a hillside lab dedicated to the study of human decomposition, and discusses several criminal cases.

Examines forensic science and how it can be used to apprehend criminals by finding clues in rug fibers, the way a bone is broken, DNA "fingerprints," and more.

Describes how to build a crime lab out of everyday materials so that things like fingerprints and handwriting can be analyzed.

An overview of forensic science for young adult readers that includes case studies of actual crimes.