Course guidebook includes an outline for each lecture, a glossary, biographical notes, and a bibliography.

Includes bibliographical references (Course guidebook, pages. 268-285).

Disc 1. Using science-crime scene to courtroom ; Crime scenes and forensic evidence ; Fingerprint science-hands-down ID ; Telltale marks-tools, guns, and ammunition ; Good impressions-shoes, tires, and skin ; Forensics of fibers, paint, and glass -- disc 2. Traces of hair and fur ; Soil, protist, plant, and animal traces ; Serology-blood and other body fluids ; The forensic analysis of DNA ; Forensic toxicology of drugs and poisons ; The forensics of substance abuse -- disc 3. Handwriting and forgery analysis ; Computer forensics and digital evidence ; Structure failure-forensic engineering ; Forensic analysis of vehicle accidents ; Fire science and explosion forensics ; Blood evidence-stains and spatters -- disc 4. The science of death ; Death investigation-algor, livor, and rigor ; Autopsy-cause and manner of death ; Decomposition-from bugs to bones ; Forensic anthropology-skeleton stories ; Forensics of teeth and bite marks -- disc 5. Police sketches and facial reproductions ; Interview, interrogation, intelligence ; Forencis profiling-who, how, and why? ; Human memory and eyewitness accounts ; Criminal minds-psychology and psychiatry ; When forensic evidence is on trial -- disc 6. Forensic scientists and expert testimony ; Comparing crimes and crime labs ; Crimes-nobody's supposed to get hurt ; Crimes-killers of one, killers of many ; Applications-mass-disaster forensics ; Applications-identification matters.

Taught by Elizabeth A. Murray.

DVD.

In English.