Photography in Forensic Science

Abstract

THE preface smtes that this book is addressed both to the practising police photographer and to the interested layman. For this diverse public Mr. Radley has covered the subject with exemplary completeness. His approach is realistic and practical. In twelve chapters he deals successively with the routine uses of ‘straight’ photography in police work, and with the uses in the laboratory of photomicrography, the methods of document examination and photography by infra-red, ultra-violet and X-rays. He has some interesting ideas of his own about applications as yet untried. He has also assembled a large and representative collection of illustrations, knowing well, no doubt, that it is largely by these that such a book is judged ; and they are convincing witnesses. They are almost all excellent and are well chosen for their purposes.

Photography in Crime Detection

By J. A. Radley. Pp. 186 + 72 plates. (London: Chapman and Hall, Ltd., 1948.) 21s. net.