Handbook of Forensic Science

Each day the modern crime laboratory attempts to discover new techniques of applying recent technological and scientific developments to aid the on-the-scene investigator in solving crime.

This book seeks to familiarize the investigator with these techniques and to make known the capabilities and the limitations of the crime laboratory. The value of properly collected physical evidence examined by trained scientists in the crime laboratory cannot be overestimated. It is a vital element in our criminal justice system.