Forensic Laboratory Services

Books and Internet sites

These titles may be available in your local library:

• The Arsenic Milkshake: and other mysteries solved by forensic science. By Sylvia Barrett. Toronto, Doubleday Canada, 1994. ISBN 0-385-25423-7

• Cracking Cases: the science of solving crimes. By Henry C Lee with Thomas W O’Neil. Amhearst, NY, Prometheus Books, 2002. ISBN 1-57392-985-9

• Crime Lab: a guide for nonscientists. By John Houde. Ventura, CA, Calico Press, 1999. ISBN 0-9658286-2-X

• Crime Scene to Court: the essentials of forensic science. Edited by Peter White. Cambridge, UK, Royal Society of Chemistry, 1998. ISBN 0-85404-539-2

• Criminalistics: an introduction to forensic science. 8th ed. By Richard Saferstein. Upper Saddle River, NJ, Pearson Prentice Hall, 2003. ISBN 0-13-111852-8

• Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences. 3 volumes. Edited by Jay A Siegel, Pekka J Saukko and Geoffrey C Knupfer. San Diego, CA, Academic Press, 2000. ISBN 0-12-227215-3

• Expertise des armes à feu et des éléments de munitions dans l’investigation criminelle. By Alain Gallusser, Monica Bonfanti and Frédéric Schütz. Lausanne, FR, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2002. ISBN 2-88074-500-4

• Forensic Evidence in Canada. 2nd ed. Edited by GM Chayko and ED Gulliver. Aurora, ON, Canada Law Book, 1999. ISBN 0-88804-300-7

• Forensic Science: an introduction to scientific and investigative techniques. Edited by Stuart H. James and Jon J. Norby. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 2003. ISBN 0-8943-1246-9

• Forensic Science Handbook. 3 volumes. Edited by Richard Saferstein. Englewood Cliffs, NJ, Prentice-Hall, 2002, 1988, 1993.

• Introduction to Forensic Sciences. 2nd ed. Edited by William G Eckert. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 1997. ISBN 0-8493-8101-0

• Investigation de scène de crime: Fixation de l’état des lieux et traitement des traces d’objets. By Jean-Claude Martin. Lausanne, FR, Presses polytechniques et universitaires romandes, 2002. ISBN 2-88074-511-X

• Mind over Murder: DNA and other forensic adventures. By Jack Batten. Toronto, ON, McClelland & Stewart, 1995. ISBN 0-7710-1066-4

• Mute Witnesses: trace evidence analysis. Edited by Max M Houck. San Diego, CA, Academic Press, 2001. ISBN 0-12-356760-2

• On Death’s Bloody Trail: murder and the art of forensic science. By Brian Marriner. NY, St. Martin’s Press, 1993. ISBN 0-312-95170-1

• Physical Evidence in Forensic Science. By Henry C Lee and Howard A Harris. Tucson, AZ, Lawyers & Judges Publishing, 2000. ISBN 1-930056-00-1

• Sciences légales et police scientifique. By JL Clement. Paris, FR, Masson, 1987. ISBN 2-225-81005-2

• Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation. 6th ed. By Barry AJ Fisher. Boca Raton, FL, CRC Press, 2000. ISBN 0-88804-300-7

Internet sites

Users should be aware that information offered by non-GoC sites that are not subject to the Official Languages Act and to which the Royal Canadian Mounted Police links, may be available only in the language(s) used by the sites in question.

Forensic Laboratories and Institutes

• Centre of Forensic Sciences (Ontario)
• Laboratoire de sciences judiciaires et de médecine légale
  du Québec
• FBI Laboratory Division (USA)
• The Forensic Science Service (UK)
• National Institute of Forensic Science (Australia)
  

Forensic Societies and Associations

• Canadian Society of Forensic Science
• American Academy of Forensic Sciences
• Forensic Science Society (UK)
• Canadian Identification Society
• Australian and New Zealand Forensic Science Society
• European Network of Forensic Science Institutes
  

Colleges and Universities

• Association of Universities and Colleges in Canada
• Candaian Society of Forensic Science
• American Academy of Forensic Science

Other Forensic Science websites

• Zeno’s Forensic Site
• Reddy’s Forensic Page
• Carpenter’s Forensic Science Resources
• Interactive Investigator - Your Introduction to the World of
  Forensic Science