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Principles and Practice of Criminalistics
public opinion. We must enforce standards from within the profession; if we
are unwilling to monitor analyst integrity on our own, it will be done for
(and to) us. Therefore, some of the subjects that will be addressed at various
points in these writings are standards for professional work, and professional,
ethical, and moral obligations of both the primary analyst and outside
reviewers.
Some of the ideas we present here challenge conventional wisdom and
will certainly provoke discussion, if not argument, among the forensic com-
munity. In one sense we present what we perceive to be the “state of the
debate.” We look forward to a continuation of this healthy debate and hope
this book may provide a point of discussion of some of the important dilem-
mas facing the practicing criminalist.
To paraphrase a 1970s icon, “You can’t consider yourself a member of
the congregation [read that profession] until you offend everybody” —
Daniel Berrigan, Chaplain at Yale, 1995.
 
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Fisher, B. J., 
 
Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation
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Houde, J. 
 
Crime Lab: A Guide for Nonscientists
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Kirk, P. L., 
 
Crime Investigation
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Kirk, P. L., 
 
Crime Investigation
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Ragle, L., 
 
Crime Scene
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Saferstein, R., 
 
Forensic Science Handbook,
Vol. 1, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
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Saferstein, R., 
 
Forensic Science Handbook, 
Vol. 2, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
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Saferstein, R., 
 
Forensic Science Handbook,
Vol. 3, Prentice-Hall, Englewood Cliffs, NJ,
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Criminalistics: An Introduction to Forensic Science
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