Bodies We've Buried: Inside the National Forensic Academy, the World's Top CSI Training School - Hardcover

Jarrett Hallcox; Amy Welch

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0425207528 ISBN 13: 9780425207529

Publisher: Berkley Hardcover, 2006

Synopsis

An introduction to forensic science and its role in law enforcement goes behind the doors of the National Forensic Academy to reveal the hands-on training in crime scene investigation, taking readers through the complete, intensive, ten-week course offered by the world-renowned school.

About this title

About the Author:

Jarrett Hallcox is the Director of the National Forensic Science Institute (NFSI). He has been featured in national media coverage of the NFA, including Popular Science, Court TV, and the Minneapolis Star Tribune. Originally from Michigan, he resides in Knoxville with his wife and young daughter.

Amy Welch is the Forensic Training Coordinator for NFSI. She has assisted in a variety of media stories on the NFA, including on Court TV.

From Publishers Weekly:

The latest authors to capitalize on the CSI craze are well situated to add something new to the literature. Hallcox and Welch run the National Forensic Academy, a state-of-the-art, hands-on crime scene investigation school for people in law enforcement, but those impressive credentials do not translate into a good read. Despite some interesting war stories, the bulk of the book is an overly technical, step-by-step description of the course of study given to academy students ("The problem, however, is that ninhydrin is not reliable when it comes to the zinc chloride process"), which is likely to glaze the eyes of all but the most die-hard fans of the genre. In addition, the authors' failed efforts at sardonic humor ("Though there are probably a few people we could think of to stick in front of a moving vehicle, our grant does not allow us to kill anybody"), and clunky, florid phrasing ("With the first lightning strike of a tree witnessed by man, he has forever been obsessed with this primordial heat") make what should have been a fascinating insider account a hard slog. B&w photos. (Jan. 3)
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About this edition

• Publisher: Berkley Hardcover
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 0425207528
• ISBN 13: 9780425207529
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 304