How does science help law enforcement professionals? Meet crime scene investigators and learn how they search for clues such as fibers and fingerprints. Discover how medical examiners use scientific techniques to uncover evidence. Learn about the techniques used in the fight against forgery, fraud, and identity theft.

This book provides an introduction to 24 iconic figures, real and fictional, that have shaped the detective/mystery genre of popular literature. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection: From Sleuths to Superheroes is an insightful look at one of our most popular and diverse fictional genres, providing a guided tour of mystery and crime writing by focusing on two dozen of the field's most enduring creations and creators. Icons of Mystery and Crime Detection spans the history of the detective story with series of critical entries on the field's most evocative names, from the originator of the form, Edgar Allan Poe, to its first popular running character, Sherlock Holmes; from the Golden Age of Sam Spade, Philip Marlowe, and Charlie Chan—in fiction and films—to small screen heroes, such as Columbo and Jessica Fletcher. Also included are other accomplished practitioners of the craft of mystery/crime storytelling, including Agatha Christie, Tony Hillerman, and Alfred Hitchcock.

Authors include: Edgar Wallace, Jack Boyle, Michael Arlen, Craig Rice, Jack Webb, Robert Fabian, Ted Willis, Gilbert Ralston, Eliot Ness, W.R. Burnett, Troy Kennedy Martin, Peter Leslie, Ed McBain, Roy Huggins, Jeffery Farnol, Joyce Porter, Richard Levinson, William Link, Baroness Orczy, Stuart Palmer, Carolyn Weston, Abby Mann, Joe Balham, William Blinn, Dennis Spooner, Leon Griffiths, Serita Stevens, Peter Cave, Jimmy Nail, Ngaio Marsh, Lynda La Plante.

"Readers will learn how forensic scientists identify victims and criminals by examining a variety of different things, such as facial reconstructions, skeletons, remains, and DNA evidence"--Provided by publisher.

The Oxford Handbook of the History of Crime and Criminal Justice provides a systematic and comprehensive examination of recent developments across criminology and criminal justice. Chapters examine methodological and theoretical approaches to criminology, on-going debates and controversies, and contemporary issues such as drug trafficking, terrorism, and the intersections of gender, race, and class in the context of crime and punishment.

One of today's most pressing issues in criminology and crime prevention is the problem of crime in our cities and towns and its prevention. The topic of crime prevention in the Urban Community was discussed at the 47th International Course of the International Society for Criminology (ISC) held at Chuo University, Tokyo. It was the very first time such an ISC meeting was held in Asia and this meant that finally a relatively large number of Japanese and other Asian participants were able to express their views on criminal policy and crime prevention in urban centres all over the world. Crime in urban communities is not an exclusively Western phenomenon, but it is also a considerable problem in other parts of the world. This makes an interchange of ideas between Western, Eastern and Third-World criminologists particularly important. General characteristics of the urban communities that suffer from a high crime rate are ethnic and racial tensions, a mix of old housing areas and new business districts, a prevailing sense of anonymity, slums and juvenile delinquency. The existence of these general characteristics besides mutual differences makes cooperation in the crime prevention sphere definitely worth the effort.