Research Catalog

Title

Behind the yellow tape : on the road with some of America's hardest working crime scene investigators / Jarrett Hallcox and Amy Welch.

Author

Hallcox, Jarrett.

Publication

New York : Berkley Books, 2009.

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Holdings

Details

Additional Authors

Welch, Amy.

Description

xvi, 299 p. : ill., maps; 21 cm.

Summary

"Despite the image Hollywood displays nightly, the job of a crime scene investigator is not glamorous - it's gruesome and painstaking work. Real CSIs spend countless backbreaking hours collecting evidence from crime scenes. They are on the front lines in the pursuit of justice, and the fate of a criminal often hinges on their ability to work a crime scene and gather enough evidence to solve the crime."--Back cover.

Subject

• Criminal investigation > United States > Case studies
• Crime scene searches > United States > Case studies
• Evidence, Criminal > United States > Case studies

Genre/Form

Case studies.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

White lightnin' : Sevier County Sheriff's office, Tennessee -- The crying game : Boone County Sheriff's office, Kentucky -- Thunder snow, aye : Duluth Police Department, Minnesota -- Divining intervention : Lynchburg Police Department, Virginia -- Mamas, let your babies grow up to be Cowboys : Texas Rangers -- CSI frappuccino : Seattle Police Department, Washington -- Jersey devil : Union County Sheriff's office, New Jersey -- So let it be written : New York City Police Department, New York -- Back to the future! : Anytown, USA -- Epilogue: Manifest destiny.

ISBN

• 9780425221662 (pbk.)
• 0425221660 (pbk.)

LCCN

^^2008035648

OCLC

233549688

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library