Reviews tagging 'Injury/Injury detail'

Forensics: What Bugs, Burns, Prints, DNA and More Tell Us About Crime by Val McDermid

4 reviews

littlealk7's review against another edition

dark hopeful informative medium-paced

4.25

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Genocide, Gun violence, Physical abuse, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Fire/Fire injury, Outing, and Injury/Injury detail

This is a book about the many fields within forensics studies, and each chapter is illustrated by multiple often distributing crime scenes.

bookedandbusy's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

5.0

This book was very interesting and I learned a lot from it! As someone who wants to work in forensics, this was an incredibly helpful and informative resource!!

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Child abuse, Child death, Domestic abuse, Gore, Physical abuse, Racial slurs, Racism, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Suicide, Blood, Stalking, Murder, and Injury/Injury detail

Bugs are mentioned quite a bit in chapter 3-Forensic Entemology

marisasbooks's review against another edition

informative reflective medium-paced

5.0

Super informative while also being a super interesting and fast paced read. Did not feel like I was being put through painful learning, it was all so interesting with tons of case examples used 

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Animal death, Death, Drug abuse, Gun violence, Hate crime, Pedophilia, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual violence, Mass/school shootings, Murder, Schizophrenia/Psychosis , and Injury/Injury detail

junglejelly's review against another edition

dark informative medium-paced

4.0

A very engaging read for me.

I enjoyed the covering a lot of topics but found some chapters too short but appreciated the bibliography at the end for further reading.

Another part I appreciated was the reiterations throughout that forensic science doesn't present 100% facts but can just be likeliness or possibilities.

Would really enjoy an updated version with the latest science and technology.

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Content Warnings

Graphic: Body horror, Child abuse, Child death, Death, Gore, Hate crime, Mental illness, Rape, Sexual assault, Violence, Blood, Medical content, Murder, Fire/Fire injury, and Injury/Injury detail

Minor: Addiction, Alcoholism, Animal cruelty, Domestic abuse, Emotional abuse, Grief, Pregnancy, and Abandonment