Sourcebook in Criminalistics

Résumé du livre

This book is a collection of readings introducing the police science student to the field of criminalistics and technological advancements in crime prevention and investigation. The law enforcement officer, as the vital link between crime and punishment, must always be aware of the possibilities for collaboration between his own crime prevention and investigation efforts and the capabilities of the criminalistics laboratory. The format of this book is that of a collection of readings and, as such, exposes the student to the works of a wide variety of members of the scientific, academic, and professional criminalistics communities. In addition to covering the more traditional subject areas of evidence collection and preservation, forensic investigations, fingerprints and ballistics, two sections of the volume are devoted to examining the technological advances made in crime prevention and investigation of modern electronics, as in the case of voiceprinting. Individual articles cover such specialized areas as the role of criminalistics in solving whitecollar crimes, a 20-characteristic classification system for fraudulent checks, and the formulation of a national criminalistics research program.