Forensics & Criminal Behavior


Text books and Supplies for Spring Quarter

ALL STUDENTS (There will be additional readings on closed reserve in the library)

Courtroom 302
by Steve Bogira, Vintage, reprint edition 2006 ISBN 978-0679752066

Criminal Justice in Action: The Core by Gaines & Miller, 4th edition, Thomson/Wadsworth, ISBN 978-0495094753

Going up the River by Joseph Hallinan, Random House 2003 ISBN: 978-0812968446

Preventing Violence by James Gilligan, Thames and Hudson 2001, ISBN 978-0500282786

Proof Positive by Philip Margolin, HarperCollins 2006 ISBN 0060735058

True Blue by Randy Sutton, St. Martin's Paperbacks, reprint edition 2005 ISBN 978-0312995379


16 CREDIT STUDENTS ONLY

Forensic Science edited by Stuart H. James and Jon J. Nordby; 2nd Edition, CRC press,
ISBN 0-8493-2747-4 (used in fall, winter, and spring)

Scientific Calculator

Laboratory Safety Glasses or Safety Goggles (can be found in bookstore)

Laboratory Notebook ( Lab notebooks should have a sturdy cover and paper; the pages MUST be sewn in, not spiral bound. Composition books would be fine. A formal (expensive) lab notebook is not required. Loose-leaf paper is not acceptable. )


SUGGESTED OPTIONAL READINGS FOR ALL STUDENTS

The Rich Get Richer and the Poor Get Prison: Ideology, Class, and Criminal Justice by Reiman

Actual Innocence: When Justice Goes Wrong and How to Make it Right by Scheck, Neufeld, & Dwyer

Henry Lee's Crime Scene Handbook by Lee, Palmbach, & Miller (on closed reserve in library)

Back from the Dead: One Woman's Search for the Men Who Walked off America's Death Row by Cheever

A Life and Death Decision: A Jury Weighs the Death Penalty by Sundby

Sense and Nonsense about Crime and Drugs by Walker

 

Text books and Supplies for Winter Quarter

Blanche on the Lam by Barbara Neely, penguin ISBN 0-14-017439-7

The Casebook of Forensic Detection by Colin Evans, Wiley, ISBN 0-471-28369-x (used in fall, winter and spring)

Class, Race, Gender, and Crime: The Social Realities of Justice in America by Flavin, Jeanne, Gregg Barak, and Paul Leighton (2006) 2nd Edition; Rowman and Littlefield.  ISBN: 0742546888

Corpse:  Nature, Forensics, and the Struggle to Pinpoint Time of Death by Jessica Snyder Sachs, Perseus Books Group, ISBN 0738207713

Death’s Acre, by Bill Bass and Jon Jefferson, penguin, ISBN 0-425-19832-4

Forensic Science edited by Stuart H. James and Jon J. Nordby; 2nd Edition, CRC press,
ISBN 0-8493-2747-4 (used in fall, winter, and spring)

Profiling Violent Crimes: An Investigative Tool. By Ronald M. Holmes and Stephen T. Holmes.  2002.  Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.  (3rd edition). ISBN (Paperback) 0761925945

The Search, by Iris Johansen, Mass market paperback, Bantam, ISBN 0553589482

Scientific Calculator

Laboratory Safety Glasses or Safety Goggles (can be found in bookstore)

Laboratory Notebook ( Lab notebooks should have a sturdy cover and paper; the pages MUST be sewn in, not spiral bound. Composition books would be fine. A formal (expensive) lab notebook is not required. Loose-leaf paper is not acceptable. )


 

 

Text books and Supplies for Fall Quarter

Forensic Science edited by Stuart H. James & Jon J. Nordby; 2nd Edition
ISBN 0-8493-2747-4 (will be used in fall, winter & spring quarters)

The Casebook of Forensic Detection by Colin Evans
ISBN 0-471-28369-x (will be used in fall, winter & spring quarters)

The Will to Kill: Making Sense of Senseless Murder by James Alan Fox, Jack Levin, and Kenna Quinet
ISBN 0-205-41880-5

The Anatomy of Motive by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker
ISBN 0-671-02393-4

The Gift of Fear by Gavin De Becker
ISBN 0-440-50883-5

Post Mortem by Patricia Cornwell
ISBN 0-743-47715-4

Going Nowhere Fast by Gar Anthony Haywood
ISBN 0-425-15051-8
(This is not available through the TESC bookstore.)

The Coffin Dancer by Jeffrey Deaver
ISBN 0-671-024094

Scientific Calculator

Laboratory Safety Glasses or Safety Goggles (can be found in bookstore, will be sold by the chemistry club during our first lab meeting--bring $15 cash)

Laboratory Notebook ( Lab notebooks should have a sturdy cover and paper; the pages MUST be sewn in, not spiral bound. Composition books would be fine. A formal (expensive) lab notebook is not required. Loose-leaf paper is not acceptable. )

 

 

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