American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.
American Sherlock : murder, forensics, and the birth of American CSI / Kate Winkler Dawson.
By
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Dawson, Kate Winkler.
Publication Date
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2020
Publication Information
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New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons,
Physical Description
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325 p., [8 p. of plates] : ill.
Subject Term
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Criminologists -- United States -- Biography.
Forensic sciences -- United States.
Forensic sciences.
Bibliography Note
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary
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Berkeley, California, 1933. In a lab filled with beakers, microscopes, and hundreds upon hundreds of books sat Edward Oscar Heinrich, America's first forensic scientists. Working in a time when the turmoil of Prohibition led to sensationalized crime reporting and only a small, systematic study of evidence, Heinrich spearheaded the invention of a myriad of new forensic tools that police still use today, including blood spatter analysis, ballistics, lie-detector tests, and the use of fingerprints as courtroom evidence. Dawson captures the life of the man who pioneered the science our legal system now relies upon-- as well as the limits of those techniques and the very human experts who wield them.
Language
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English
ISBN
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9780525539551
Library | Collection | Collection | Call Number | Status |
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Gander (GGR) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 363.25092 D32 | Lost |
St. John's - A.C. Hunter (SJH) | Adult NFic | Adult Non-Fiction | 363.25092 D32 | Checked In |