The Complete Idiot's Guide to Forensics

by Alan Axelrod

Get a clue about the most vital components of criminal investigation. This new edition offers the most up-do-date scientific investigation methods used by todays law enforcement agencies, including criminal profiling, lie detector technology, and DNA analyses, with an emphasis on forensic pathology, anthropology, and psychology. Guy Antinozzi is a veteran police officer and detective who teaches in the field Focuses on the use of forensics in criminal investigations instead of academic and theoretical criminology

Genres: Science, Nonfiction

369 pages, ebook

First published January 1, 2007

About the author

Alan Axelrod, Ph.D., is a prolific author of history, business and management books. As of October 2018, he had written more than 150 books, as noted in an online introduction by Lynn Ware Peek before an interview with Axelrod on the National Public Radio station KPCW. Axelrod resides in Atlanta, Georgia.

Reviews

[Angela · Rating 3 out of 5]

Overall a good basic reference for Forensics. I found some errors (or what I thought of as errors), but still appreciated the effort this book took to get things right.

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[Joseph VanBuren · Rating 4 out of 5]

A comprehensive overview of the many different aspects of forensics and criminal investigation. If you like Forensic Files as much as I do, you will find this book utterly fascinating!

[grahamcracker · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’m by no means a forensics expert, unless you count watching “Dexter” and “Hannibal” as research. However, I can say for a fact that this book covered most aspects of the field. Although it didn’t go very in depth with each topic, if you just want a basic overview like I did, this book is perfect for you. It also manages to stay very informative and not read like a textbook; in fact, it actually made me chuckle a few times. I give it four stars!