Cool Careers for Girls as Crime Solvers

by Linda Thornburg

This new title profiles 10 pioneering women working as crime solvers, from police officer to forensic scientist.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1570231745
• ISBN13: 9781570231742
• Release Date: November 2001
• Publisher: Impact Publications
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.52 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 7.0" x 9.0"
• Age Range: 11 to 14 years
• Grade Range: Grades 6 to 9

Customer Reviews

Excellent career comparisons involving forensics

This book has 10 examples of jobs that involve some form of criminal forensics: Firearms Examiner, Latent Fingerprint Examiner, Forensic Anthropologist, Forensic Microscopist, Investigator-Insurance Fraud, Forensic Pathologist, Bloodstain Pattern Analyst, Police Detective/Forensic Artist, Computer Forensic Specialist and Forensic Science Lab Director. EACH career path has a real female example and how she got into her current job. It also has a "career checklist.. You'll like this job if you..." THIS IS GREAT because it applies generic characteristics to a specific job. An example is You'll like bloodstain pattern analysis if you "love to sovle puzzles, are good at math and physics...have a strong stomach, can face the worst human beings do to one another...like to teach." I went through this book within a few hours. I felt as though I had interviewed each of these women about their careers without doing the leg work. It also gave salary information, experience and educational requirements. It is a great book to begin your research into a career in crime solving without becoming a police woman. It also has web references for more in depth information. This book would be great for men as well but it definitely has the edge of assisting women in fields that are predominantly occupied by men.