Trails of Evidence : how Forensic Science Works

Location & Checkout Length	Call Number	Checkout Length	Item Status
Downtown 2nd Floor 4-week checkout	BOCD 363.25 Mu Oversize	4-week checkout	Due 05-19-2024

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 -- Disc 2: Fingerprint science-hands-down ID -- Telltale marks-tools, guns, and ammunition -- Disc 3: Good impressions-shoes, tires, and skin -- Forensics of fibers, paint, and glass -- Disc 4: Traces of hair and fur -- Soil, protist, plant, and animal traces -- Disc 5: Serology-blood and other body fluids -- The forensic analysis of DNA -- Disc 6: Forensic toxicology of drugs and poisons -- The forensics of substance abuse -- Disc 7: Handwriting and forgery analysis -- Computer forensics and digital evidence -- Disc 8: Structure failure-forensic engineering -- Forensic analysis of vehicle accidents -- Disc 9: Fire science and explosion forensics -- Blood evidence-stains and spatters -- Disc 10: The science of death -- Death investigation-algor, livor, and rigor -- Disc 11: Autopsy-cause and manner of death -- Decomposition-from bugs to bones -- Disc 12: Forensic anthropology-skeleton stories -- Forensics of teeth and bite marks -- Disc 13: Police sketches and facial reproductions -- Interview, interrogation, intelligence -- Disc 14: Forencis profiling-who, how, and why? -- Human memory and eyewitness accounts -- Disc 15: Criminal minds-psychology and psychiatry -- When forensic evidence is on trial -- Disc 16: Forensic scientists and expert testimony -- Comparing crimes and crime labs -- Disc 17: Crimes-nobody's supposed to get hurt -- Crimes-killers of one, killers of many -- Disc 18: Applications-mass-disaster forensics -- Applications-identification matters.
Taught by Elizabeth A. Murray.

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