Table of Contents

Preface and acknowledgements to second edition 1: What is forensic science 2: Investigating crime 3: Crime scene management and forensic investigation 4: Laboratory examination: search, recovery, and analysis 5: DNA: identity, relationships, and databases 6: Prints and marks: more ways to identify people and things 7: Trace evidence 8: Drugs and toxicology 9: Science and justice - a case studyFurther readingIndex

About the Author

Jim Fraser has 40 years' experience in forensic science and has worked on many high profile cases, in various roles, including as an expert witness, case reviewer, senior police manager, policy adviser, and researcher. He has also advised many public agencies including police organisations in the UK and abroad, the Home Office, the Scottish Parliament, and the UK Parliament. He is a Research Professor in Forensic Science at the University of Strathclyde, as well as a member of the Scottish Criminal Cases Review Commission and Independent Chair of the United Kingdom Accreditation Service technical advisory committee on forensic science.

Reviews

Well written and accessible... [and] does not shy away from the various controversies that have come to plague the discipline of forensic science in recent years.
*Professor David Wilson, author of My Life With Murderers*