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Criminalistics: Forensic Science And Crime (Criminal Justice Illuminated)

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This book is somewhat of an easy, but dull, read. However, watch out: There are WAY too many mistakes. If you have no background in forensic science/criminalistics, you will have a hard time learning the truth when there are so many false statements in this book. I do not recommend this book: It is dull and filled with lies!

A lot of wrong facts which can be misleading. Overall helpful, but dry. Really liked the true-life cases and connections. Important information without it being written over and over and over different ways, like many other books.

I used this book for a Forensic Science class this spring. It is very easy to read, but had a lot of mistakes in the reviews at the end of the chapters. I think that these ending sections must have been write by another person because they did not use the proper definitions. Like in Chapter 9: Inorganic Analysis they say plasma is a part of human blood instead of a mixture of gases that conduct electricity because of a significant concentration of cations. In the glass chapter the also mess up the definition of an amorphous solid, they actually say it is a solid with regular order! (this is the exact opposite of the meaning.) These are just the two mistakes that stood out the most, but I am sure there are at least 20 more.

Essentually anyone reviewing with this book is bond to be screwed up unless they already know everything!

I write, and so for me, this is a great place to get a comprehensive guide for forensic science, especially for all you writing mystery novels out there!