Illustrated Guide to Home Forensic Science Experiments: All Lab, No Lecture

Have you ever wondered whether the forensic science you’ve seen on TV is anything like the real thing? There’s no better way to find out than to roll up your sleeves and do it yourself. This full-color book offers advice for setting up an inexpensive home lab, and includes more than 50 hands-on lab sessions that deal with forensic science experiments in biology, chemistry, and physics. You’ll learn the practical skills and fundamental knowledge needed to pursue forensics as a lifelong hobby—or even a career.

The forensic science procedures in this book are not merely educational, they’re the real deal. Each chapter includes one or more lab sessions devoted to a particular topic. You’ll find a complete list of equipment and chemicals you need for each session.

• Analyze soil, hair, and fibers
• Match glass and plastic specimens
• Develop latent fingerprints and reveal blood traces
• Conduct drug and toxicology tests
• Analyze gunshot and explosives residues
• Detect forgeries and fakes
• Analyze impressions, such as tool marks and footprints
• Match pollen and diatom samples
• Extract, isolate, and visualize DNA samples

Through their company, The Home Scientist, LLC (thehomescientist.com/forensics), the authors also offer inexpensive custom kits that provide specialized equipment and supplies you’ll need to complete the experiments. Add a microscope and some common household items and you’re good to go.

你有没有想过你在电视上看到的法医科学是不是真的？没有比卷起袖子自己动手更好的办法了。这本全彩色的书为建立一个便宜的家庭实验室提供了建议，并包括50多个动手实验室课程，涉及生物、化学和物理中的法医科学实验。你将学习从事取证工作所需的实用技能和基础知识，将其作为终身爱好–甚至是职业。

这本书中的法医科学程序不仅具有教育意义，而且是真实的。每一章包括一个或多个专门讨论特定主题的实验课程。你会找到每个课程所需的设备和化学品的完整清单。

• 分析土壤、头发和纤维
• 匹配玻璃和塑料样品
• 显露潜在指纹并显露血迹
• 进行药物和毒理学测试
• 分析枪击和爆炸物残留物
• Detect forgeries and fakes
• 分析印记，如工具痕迹和示意图
• 匹配花粉和硅藻样本
• Extract, isolate, and visualize DNA samples

通过他们的公司Home Science，LLC(thehome cientist.com/forensics)，作者还提供了廉价的定制套件，这些套件提供完成实验所需的专门设备和用品。再加上一个显微镜和一些常见的家居用品，你就可以开始了。