Trails of Evidence : how Forensic Science Works

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Call Number: DVD 363.25 Mu Oversize
On Shelf At: Downtown Library

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Course guidebook includes an outline for each lecture, a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography.
Disc 1: Using science-crime scene to courtroom -- Crime scenes and forensic evidence -- Fingerprint science-hands-down ID -- Telltale marks-tools, guns, and ammunition -- Good impressions-shoes, tires, and skin -- Forensics of fibers, paint, and glass. Disc 2: Traces of hair and fur -- Soil, protist, plant, and animal traces -- Serology-blood and other body fluids -- The forensic analysis of DNA -- Forensic toxicology of drugs and poisons -- The forensics of substance abuse. Disc 3: Handwriting and forgery analysis -- Computer forensics and digital evidence -- Structure failure-forensic engineering -- Forensic analysis of vehicle accidents -- Fire science and explosion forensics -- Blood evidence-stains and spatters. Disc 4: The science of death -- Death investigation-algor, livor, and rigor -- Autopsy-cause and manner of death -- Decomposition-from bugs to bones -- Forensic anthropology-skeleton stories -- Forensics of teeth and bite marks. Disc 5: Police sketches and facial reproductions -- Interview, interrogation, intelligence -- Forencis profiling-who, how, and why? -- Human memory and eyewitness accounts -- Criminal minds-psychology and psychiatry -- When forensic evidence is on trial. Disc 6: Forensic scientists and expert testimony -- Comparing crimes and crime labs -- Crimes-nobody's supposed to get hurt -- Crimes-killers of one, killers of many -- Applications-mass-disaster forensics -- Applications-identification matters.
Taught by Elizabeth A. Murray.
DVD.

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