The adventures of forensic ballistics, Dobrodruzstvi kriminalisticke balistiky, Premysl Liska

A captivating story of one of the oldest and most important criminological sciences
The book, on the border of non-fiction and non-fiction, deals with the history of forensic identification (identification) of weapons according to traces on fired cartridges and projectiles – one of the most important independent fields of modern forensic technology.
The author, who is one of the leading experts in this field, will guide the reader through the development of ballistic expertise from primitive experiments through scientific beginnings in the early 20th century to its standardization in the late 1940s. Emphasis is also placed on the personalities who have contributed most to the elaboration of identification methods.
The importance and improvement of forensic ballistics is evidenced by the number of real cases of its use in the fight against crime from our and world history. The well-founded and readable text, which also includes an explanation of the scientific nature of the individual procedures, accompanies a large number of unique period photographs and documents.

Year of publication: 2021
language: Czech 
Publisher: Universum
Binding, number of pages: Binding, 280 pages

Оriginal

Strhujici pribeh jedne z nejstarsich a nejvyznamnejsich kriminalistickych ved
Kniha na pomezi literatury faktu a naucne literatury pojednava o historii kriminalisticke identifikace (ztotozneni) zbrani podle stop na vystrelenych nabojnicich a strelach – jednoho z nejvyznamnejsich samostatnych oboru moderni kriminalisticke techniky.
Autor, ktery patri k prednim odbornikum na tuto problematiku, ctenare provede vyvojem balisticke expertizy od primitivnich pokusu pres vedecke prvopocatky na pocatku 20. stoleti az po jeji standardizaci koncem 40. let. Duraz je kladen rovnez na osobnosti, ktere se nejvic zaslouzily o propracovani identifikacnich metod.
Vyznam a zdokonalovani kriminalisticke balistiky jsou dolozeny mnozstvim skutecnych pripadu jejiho vyuziti v boji proti zlocinu z nasi i svetove historie. Fundovany a ctivy text, jehoz soucasti je i vyklad vedecke podstaty jednotlivych postupu, doprovazi velke mnozstvi unikatnich dobovych fotografii a dokumentu.

Rok vydani: 2021
Jazyk: Cesky
Nakladatel: Universum
Vazba, pocet stran: Vazana, 280 stran