Forensic Science Books

New and Published Books

1. Professionalizing Offender Profiling

   Forensic and Investigative Psychology in Practice

   Edited by Laurence Alison, Lee Rainbow

   Offender profiling is now viewed as an integral part of serious crime investigations by many law enforcement agencies across the world and continues to attract a high public and media profile. Despite almost three decades of research and developments in the field, the public impression of offender...

   Published April 17th 2011 by Routledge
2. The Routledge Handbook of Archaeological Human Remains and Legislation

   An international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains

   Edited by Nicholas Marquez Grant, Linda Fibiger

   Methodologies and legislative frameworks regarding the archaeological excavation, retrieval, analysis, curation and potential reburial of human skeletal remains differ throughout the world. As work forces have become increasingly mobile and international research collaborations are steadily...

   Published March 20th 2011 by Routledge
3. Forensic Medicine in Western Society

   A History

   By Katherine D. Watson

   The first book of its kind, Forensic Medicine in Western Society: A History draws on the most recent developments in the historiography, to provide an overview of the history of forensic medicine in the West from the medieval period to the present day. Taking an international, comparative...

   Published October 26th 2010 by Routledge
4. Biosocial Criminology

   New Directions in Theory and Research

   Edited by Anthony Walsh, Kevin M Beaver

   Series: Criminology and Justice Studies

   Ideal for use, either as a second text in a standard criminology course, or for a discrete course on biosocial perspectives, this book of original chapters breaks new and important ground for ways today's criminologists need to think more broadly about the crime problem....

   Published September 30th 2008 by Routledge
5. Drug Treatment

   What Works?

   Edited by Philip Bean, Teresa Nemitz

   Britain, like almost everywhere else, has a burgeoning drug problem. Finding ways of dealing with this problem is a major platform of government policy and a great deal has been made of the impact of treatment on drug users. Drug Treatment: What Works? is a cutting edge survey of the latest...

   Published August 4th 2004 by Routledge