Anatomiia prestupleniia: Chto mogut rasskazat' nasekomye, otpechatki pal'tsev i DNK. - Makdermid V.

How trustworthy can you trust fingerprinting? How do insects help determine the time of killing? How do political and war criminals be found in the portraits taken with ageing in mind? In this book, the world-famous Scottish writer, detective author Val McDermid changes roles and undertakes his own investigation. Its heroes - geniuses of the study and ordinary police officers, great scientists and painstaking experts. Loud cases, which became the basis for movies, serial killers, victims of unhappy love or extreme sexual games, arsonists, molesters, crooks, marriage scammers ... And the search for truth. Before us unfolds a long history of criminology - from forensic medicine of ancient China to DNA profiling - with its errors and victories, when after many years it is possible to find the criminal and give freedom to the innocent convict.