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  • Criminal Profiling: Searching for Suspects

    Christine Honders

    Paperback (Lucent Books, Jan. 15, 2018)
    Shows how criminal profilers use forensic evidence to predict who committed a crime and how the crime was committed.

  • Tracking Serial Killers

    Diane Yancey

    Hardcover (Lucent, April 27, 2007)
    Presents the forensic techniques that are used in the investigations of serial killers and that aid in their apprehension, including such processes as psychological and DNA profiling, analyses of biological evidence, and the coordinated use of national databases.
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  • The Columbine School Shootings

    Jenny Mackay

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Feb. 19, 2010)
    Describes the shootings at Columbine High School in 1999, the police response, and the criminal investigation of the event, and includes details about the crime scene, the killers, the weapons, and the lessons learned from the event.
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  • The Medical Examiner

    Toney Allman

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Feb. 24, 2006)
    Discusses what medical examiners do.
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  • Kidnapping

    Jan Burns

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Dec. 14, 2007)
    Describes how investigators use forensic sciences to solve kidnappings, from finding the victim to profiling the perpetrator.
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  • The D.C. Sniper Shootings

    Craig Blohn

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Oct. 6, 2006)
    Describes the events that occurred during the late 2002 sniper spree outside of Washington, D.C., details the investigation by law enforcement, and looks at the trials of the two men involved.

  • Underwater Forensics

    Gail Stewart

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, May 21, 2010)
    Describes the use of underwater forensics in criminal investigations, including information on safety divers, evidence recovery, and examining plane crashes.
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  • Criminal Profiling: Searching for Suspects

    Christine Honders

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Jan. 15, 2018)
    Before police can solve a crime, they need to find their suspects. In especially difficult cases, law enforcement officials use criminal profiling to help catch their perpetrators. The science of criminal profiling combines forensics and psychology to understand the type of person who commits crimes. Through thoroughly-researched text, including informative quotes from experts in the field and statistical fact boxes, readers learn how profilers are able to use evidence to accurately determine an offender's age, motives, and state of mind. They also learn what to do to pursue a career in this field in the future.

  • The Zodiac Killer: Terror in California

    Kate Rogers

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Aug. 15, 2017)
    Provides an in-depth look at the investigation of the Zodiac killer who terrorized residents of California during the 1960s and 1970s.

  • Murder in Mississippi: The 1964 Freedom Summer Killings

    Stephen Currie

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, Feb. 24, 2006)
    Describes the events and investigation surrounding the disappearance and murder of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964.
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  • The Case of the Green River Killer

    Diane Yancey

    Library Binding (Lucent Books, April 27, 2007)
    Describes the investigation and prosecution of the Green River serial murderer in Washington State.

  • Drug Trafficking: a Global Criminal Trade

    Nicole Horning

    Paperback (Lucent Books, Jan. 15, 2018)
    Presents a history of the war on drugs, identifying the drugs commonly moved, discussing the use of technology in drug dealing, and examining the efforts to end the trafficking.