Forensic Science category: 441 books
Beating Drug Tests and Defending Positive Results
A Toxicologist’s Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2010
A majority of the Fortune 500 Companies implement some practice of workplace drug testing in their company policies. This practice was first initiated by President Ronald Reagan when he ordered federal agencies to drug test federal employees involved in sensitive positions as well as positions involving...
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse
Knowledge, Power, and the Cultural Conditions of Victimhood
Language: English
Release Date: June 26, 2017
Female-Perpetrated Sex Abuse is a groundbreaking study into gender, sexuality and victimhood. It examines the cultural conditions of possibility for FSA victimhood as a means to advance contemporary critical understandings of the role of gender and sexuality as instruments of modern power. As the...
by Jacqueline B. Helfgott
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 9, 2018
An in-depth interdisciplinary perspective on psychopathy suitable for those interested in criminology and criminal justice, sociology, psychology, anthropology, and other social science as well as general knowledge.
• Offers an in-depth, interdisciplinary perspective on psychopathy, useful...
by Einar Göhring
Language: German
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Language: German
Release Date: October 10, 2017
Im tierexperimentellen Rahmen der Arbeit werden die Wirkungen des Herbizids Paraquat qualitativ (Toxizität, Histologie der Lunge) und quantitativ (Bestimmung der LD50 und der Paraquatdichloridkonzentrationen in Lunge, Leber und Niere nach peroraler Verabreichung) untersucht. Die Ergebnisse decken...
Forensik in der digitalen Welt
Moderne Methoden der forensischen Fallarbeit in der digitalen und digitalisierten realen Welt
Language: German
Release Date: March 27, 2017
Das vorliegende Buch gibt Personen mit Ermittlungsauftrag einen Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen und Methoden in der modernen Forensik. Es zeigt insbesondere, wie computergestützte Methoden neue Wege in der klassischen Forensik weisen und durch Digitalisierung und Verknüpfung mit Informationen...
Charles Manson's Creepy Crawl
The Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
With a new epilogue updated from its hardcover edition titled Creepy Crawling: Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home, and without harming anyone, leaving only a trace...
Zodiac Unmasked
The Identity of America's Most Elusive Serial Killers Revealed
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2007
Robert Graysmith reveals the true identity of Zodiac—America's most elusive serial killer.
Between December 1968 and October 1969 a hooded serial killer called Zodiac terrorized San Francisco. Claiming responsibility for thirty-seven murders, he manipulated the media with warnings, dares,...
Conviction
The Untold Story of Putting Jodi Arias Behind Bars
Language: English
Release Date: February 16, 2016
Juan Martinez, the fiery prosecutor who convicted notorious murderess Jodi Arias for the disturbing killing of Travis Alexander, speaks for the first time about the shocking investigation and sensational trial that captivated the nation.
Through two trials, America watched with baited breath...
Kitty Genovese
A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2016
A New York Times bestseller!
Written in a flowing narrative style, Kitty Genovese: A True Account of a Public Murder and Its Private Consequences presents the story of the horrific and infamous murder of Kitty Genovese, a young woman stalked and stabbed on the street where she lived in Queens,...
Creepy Crawling
Charles Manson and the Many Lives of America's Most Infamous Family
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
"Creepy crawling" was the Manson Family's practice of secretly entering someone's home and, without harming anyone, leaving only a trace of evidence that they had been there, some reminder that the sanctity of the private home had been breached. Now, author Jeffrey Melnick reveals just how much the...
The Zebra Murders
A Season of Killing, Racial Madness and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2011
On October 20, 1973, in San Francisco, a white couple strolling down Telegraph Hill was set upon and butchered by four young black men. Thus began a reign of terror that lasted six months and left fifteen whites dead and the entire city in a state of panic. The perpetrators wanted nothing less than...
Murder City
The Untold Story of Canada's Serial Killer Capital, 1959-1984
Language: English
Release Date: June 9, 2015
Like the mythic cities of Gotham or Gomorrah, London, Ontario was for many years an unrivalled breeding ground of depravity and villainy, the difference being that its monsters were all too real.
In its coming to inherit the unwanted distinction of being the serial killer capital of not just...
Why We Love Serial Killers
The Curious Appeal of the World's Most Savage Murderers
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2014
A chilling investigation into the deviant mind, “so powerful and provocative, you cannot put it down” (Rita Cosby, New York Times–bestselling author).
We know the names: Ted Bundy, Ed Gein, Jeffrey Dahmer, John Wayne Gacy, among them—serial killers transformed by the media into ghoulish...
RAMPAGE SPREE KILLERS
Spree Killers and School Shootings
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2014
Rampage Spree Killers depicts realistic violence with vile and malicious killings that took place in schools, restaurants and other public places and is at times graphic.
Two major motives fuel the Spree Killer's final, hate-filled act: revenge against the world and a desire to show that he...