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Title: Criminal Poisoning: Investigational Guide for Law Enforcement, Toxicologists, Forensic Scientists, and Attorneys by John Harris, III Trestrail ISBN: 1-58829-133-2 Publisher: Humana Press Pub. Date: 15 January, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $29.50 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (2 reviews)
Rating: 3
Summary: Informative but quite brief
Comment: This short book has a lot of information useful to law enforcement in evaluating deaths, to help determine if a death is a result of a homicidal poisoning. Further, the author provides advice on how to close in on a suspect and how homicidal poisoners operate.
The book has a number of statistics regarding frequency of use of various poisons and percentages of poisoners who are male, female and of various races.
There are two reasons for my giving it 3 stars:
1. I expected more information about specific poisons. Aside from a summary of a few poisons in an appendix, there is not much specific information about the actions of various chemicals.
2. The book is rife with grammatical and what I assume are typographical errors, even to the point that the author (or publisher) misspells his own name on one page. In a book with many statistics, seeing so many such errors makes me wonder how many errors exist in the numbers that I'm reading. I never heard of this publishing house but I found their website and they apparently specialize in scientific and medical books. I just hope that they aren't printing books being relied upon by physicians treating members of my family, if this is the quality of oversight they give to their books.
Rating: 5
Summary: Criminal Poisoning - a review
Comment: This book should be in the library of anyone interested in toxicology whether a professional or a reader or writer in this area. The book is a meticulous reference for an area which is covered only in scattered locations. Descriptions of historical poisoners as well as more modern cases are concise and clear. The author bases this book on his extensive lecture series at the FBI academy. Investigations through testimony in court is covered. The author provides detailed information on key poisons and an extensive bibliography. The information presented will clear up many myths perpetuated in various novels and on the internet.
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Title: Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science (7th Edition) by Richard E. Saferstein ISBN: 0130138274 Publisher: Prentice Hall Pub. Date: 31 July, 2000 List Price(USD): $94.00 |
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Title: Forensic Nursing and Mental Disorder in Clinical Practice by Norman McClelland, Martin Humphreys, Lorraine Conlon, Tony Hillis, Lee, Mike Walsh ISBN: 0750643099 Publisher: Butterworth-Heinemann Pub. Date: 15 April, 2001 List Price(USD): $46.95 |
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