Forensic Science: Fundamentals & Investigations

by Anthony J. Bertino, Patricia Bertino

With today's popular television programs about criminal justice and crime scene investigation and the surge of detective movies and books, students often have a passion for exploring forensic science. Now you can guide that excitement into a profitable learning experience with the help of the innovative, new FORENSIC SCIENCE: FUNDAMENTALS AND INVESTIGATIONS, 2E. This dynamic, visually powerful text has been carefully crafted to ensure solid scientific content and an approach that delivers precisely what you need for your high school course. Now an established best-seller, FORENSIC SCIENCE: FUNDAMENTALS AND INVESTIGATIONS, 2E offers a truly experiential approach that engages students in active learning and emphasizes the application of integrated science in your course. Student materials combine math, chemistry, biology, physics, and earth science with content aligned to the National Science Education Standards, clearly identified by icons. This book balances extensive scientific concepts with hands-on classroom and lab activities, readings, intriguing case studies, and chapter-opening scenarios. The book's exclusive Gale Forensic Science eCollection� database provides instant access to hundreds of journals and Internet resources that spark the interest of today's high school students. The new edition includes one new chapter on entomology and new capstone projects that integrate the concepts learned throughout the text. Comprehensive, time-saving teacher support and lab activities deliver exactly what you need to ensure that students receive a solid, integrated science education that keeps readers at all learning levels enthused about science. FORENSIC SCIENCE: FUNDAMENTALS AND INVESTIGATIONS, 2E sets the standard in high school forensic science . . . case closed.

Genres: Textbooks

704 pages, Hardcover

First published January 8, 2008

Reviews

[K. K. · Rating 3 out of 5]

Pretty interesting, although it seems to have a fair amount of formatting errors.

Examples of these errors include:
-page 110, the book says “Figure 5-7 shows apple seeds encased within the fruit.”figure 5-7 is an image of an avocado
-page 198, several word appear cut off
-page 437, a graph labels the x-axis as “Shoe size” and the y-axis as “Height”, it also has a key that labels the data points as “Shoe size”, these data points show the height as well as the shoe size, so labeling them this way would be incorrect

Overall pretty good textbook (I don’t actually know how it compares to other textbooks because I hadn’t read an entire textbook before this). I can’t really say how accurate the information is, because I don’t know that much about forensic science. It probably should have less errors, given the fact that it is a fully published book.

[Eric · Rating 4 out of 5]

Kinda disappointed there was no cyber / digital crime explicitly included in here, but maybe that's in the 2020 update... #EpsteinDidn'tKillHimself