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Full text searchable access to essential forensic science and criminal justice reference books.

Compiled by the FBI.

United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime

from Bureau of Justice Statistics, U.S. Dept. of Justice

from the Office of Postsecondary Education of the U. S. Dept of Education

An online training portal for Crime Scene Investigation (CSI) personnel developed by V Ganesh Murali, Doctoral Research Fellow, Bharathiar University.

The NCSTL database is designed to be “one-stop-shopping” for information related to the nexus of science, technology and the law. It is a collection of thousands of bibliographic records for forensic and criminal justice related resources. These bibliographic records provide you with an abstract for each item, as well as all the information you or your librarian will need to find that item, including the URL to the full text of the item whenever it is available online.

A standard in the forensics world for bringing together many useful forensic's related sites.

From the National Institute of Justice.

This is the second edition of the landmark book that standardized the language and terminology used throughout the criminal justice system. It classifies the critical characteristics of the perpetrators and victims of major crimes—murder, arson, sexual assault, and nonlethal acts—based on the motivation of the offender. The second edition contains new classifications on computer crimes, religion-extremist murder, and elder female sexual homicide. This edition also contains new information on stalking and child abduction, the use of biological agents as weapons, cybercrimes, Internet child sex offenders, burglary and rape, and homicidal poisoning. In addition, many of the case studies and crime statistics have been updated.

From the Federal Judicial Center.

The definitive resource on the science of fingerprint identification. Prepared by the International Association for Identification, topics covered include the anatomy and physiology of friction ridge skin (the uniquely ridged skin found on the palms and soles); techniques for recording exemplars from both living and deceased subjects; the FBI's Automated Fingerprint Identifications Systems (AFIS); latent print development, preservation and documentation; equipment and laboratory quality assurance; perceptual, cognitive and psychological factors in expert identifications; and legal issues.

Online version of reference work that provides chemical and physical data for scientists and engineers.