One of my best resource books I found Is "Body in Question--Exploring the Cutting Edge in Forensic Science" by Brian Innes. It has gruesome, detailed pictures that supplement the discussion of how Forensic Scientists do their work. The focus of the book is on police procedure--finding the victim and learning about who they are, establishing time of death, establishing cause of death, linking evidence to the guilty party, and understanding the mind of the criminal, oh, and a big discussion about "beyond reasonable doubt". Having sat on a jury several times, that latter bit really makes or breaks a case. One issue we discussed on a two separate jury duty panels and was whether being in a "shady" location at 10:00 at night meant someone could be presumed to be a villian or agreeing to take part in villianous activities. As a party girl in my younger life, I was often out and about well after 10:00, in fact, most the action didn't start until 10:00. That put me in that villianous category because I liked to dance and I couldn't quite buy it. Admittedly I wasn't in the "shady" areas, but bad luck could have caused me to be so. Jury duty really demonstrated to me how much age and lifestyle really affects what people find as normal behavior.

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