Crime Scene Forensics: A Scientific Method Approach
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Bridging the gap between practical crime scene investigation and scientific theory, maintains that crime scene investigations are intensely intellectual exercises that marry scientific and investigative processes. Success in this field requires experience, creative thinking, logic, and the correct application of the science and the scientific method.
Size: 6.7 MB
Crime Scene Forensics: A Scientific Method Approach
Bridging the gap between practical crime scene investigation and
scientific theory, maintains that crime scene investigations are
intensely intellectual exercises that marry scientific and investigative
processes. Success in this field requires experience, creative
thinking, logic, and the correct application of the science and the
scientific method.
Emphasizing the necessary thought processes for applying science to the investigation, this text covers:
* The general scene investigation process, including definitions and philosophy as well as hands-on considerations
* Archiving the crime scene through photography, sketching, and video
* Managing the crime scene investigation-the glue that holds the investigation together
* Searching the crime scene-the logical byproduct of archiving and management
* Impression/pattern evidence, including fingerprints, bloodstains, footwear impressions, and tire track impressions
*
The biological crime scene and recognizing, collecting, and
preserving biological evidence, including forensic entomology and
evidence found at bio-weapon scenes
*
The fundamental principles of evidence as expressed by the Principle
of Divisible Matter and the Locard Exchange Principle: every touch
leaves a trace
* Trace evidence, including glass, paint, and soil
* Shooting incident scenes, with discussion of bullet paths and gunshot residue
The
final section examines fire scenes, quality assurance issues, and
methods for collecting and preserving various evidence types not covered
in other chapters.
The
delicate balance among logic, science, and investigative activity must
be understood in order to successfully work a crime scene. Enhanced by
more than 200 color images, this volume provides investigators and
students with the tools to grasp these critical concepts, paving an
expeditious path to the truth.
Size: 6.7 MB
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Forensic Autopsy: A Handbook and Atlas
All too often, forensic pathologists perform autopsies that are limited only to the body parts that are suspect, leading to biased and inaccurate results. A correct diagnosis for cause of death can only be reached by a strict and systematic examination of the whole body. Providing a step-by-step, photo-assisted guide to complete autopsy procedures, commands the field in offering the most advanced and complete resource of its kind.
Packed with more color photos than any other leading autopsy reference, this volume explores:
External cadaver examination
Organ removal methods
Laboratory procedures
Microscopy applications
New imaging techniques
Pediatric and fetal autopsy
Pre and post autopsy procedures
Genetic disease and DNA diagnosis
Autopsy protocol for the examination of the vertebral artery.
From macroscopic to microscopic approaches, this volume provides detailed guidelines for performance of autopsy on every part of the human body. Using these standardized protocols and with the proper knowledge, training, and experience, pathologists can develop the skill needed to become experts in their field.
Size: 14.4 MB
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Forensic Psychology: Concepts, Debates and Practice (2nd edition)
This
book brings together academics, practitioners and experts in the field of
forensic psychology to demonstrate the scope of the discipline and push its
parameters. Its aim is to go beyond introductory texts to challenge
perceptions, to raise questions for research and to pose problems for practice.
The editors hope to inspire and stimulate debate about how forensic psychology
can aid the practice of justice. The book is divided into six sections,
addressing key topics from the discipline: investigation and prosecution;
testimony and evidence; serious and persistent offending; treatment as
intervention; intervention and prevention and punishment and corrections. The
contributors are drawn from the UK, the USA and Australia.
This updated, revised and significantly expanded edition develops the picture
of diversity and depth of forensic psychology; considers ways in which the
discipline has progressed and identifies challenges for its future
sustainability and growth. Includes a new section on treatment as intervention
with contributions on personality disordered offenders; anger control group
work with forensic psychiatric inpatients; and developments in treatment for
drug misuse offenders additional chapters throughout including contributions on
UK police interviews; the investigation and prosecution of rape; the effect of
gender in the courtroom; forensic psychology and terrorism; the aetiology of
genocide; self harm in prisons; post-corrections reintegration and many more an
innovative textbook on forensic psychology exploring application of the subject
and setting forensic psychology in a broader context demonstrates ways in which
forensic psychology can aid the practice of criminal justice.
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Forensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches
Features
- Presents step-by-step methodology for search, survey, documentation, excavation, and recovery of human remains and associated evidence
- Examines geophysical tools
- Includes a chapter on report writing
- Provides sample forms for detailed documentation of the search, excavation, and recovery of human remains along with evidential collection
- Contains discussion questions, case studies, key terms, and suggested readings
Summary
This reference, now in its second edition, is a comprehensive guide that focuses on the practical aspects of excavating and recovering human remains, as well as any associated evidence, from crime scenes. It highlights the protocols and techniques that are used to successfully survey, map, recover, document, collect, and transport evidence. New additions to the reference include discussion questions and suggested readings, updated mapping and measuring techniques, including a section on GIS and backpack differential GPS systems, expanded information on botany, DNA, and soil, and non-forensic burial contexts. Almost 200 illustrations are included to help clarify concepts.Size : 4.7 MB
Fundamentals of Fingerprint Analysis
The "CSI effect" has brought an explosion of interest in the forensic sciences, leading to the development of new programs in universities across the world. While dozens of professional texts on the science of fingerprint analysis are available, few are designed specifically for students. An essential learning tool for classes in fingerprinting and impression evidence, takes students from an understanding of the historical background of fingerprint evidence to seeing how it plays out in a present-day courtroom.
Using a pedagogical format, with each chapter building on the previous one, the book is divided into three sections. The first explains the history and theory of fingerprint analysis, fingerprint patterns and classification, and the concept of biometrics-the practice of using unique biological measurements or features to identify individuals. The second section discusses forensic light sources and physical and chemical processing methods. Section Three covers fingerprint analysis with chapters on documentation, crime scene processing, fingerprint and palm print comparisons, and courtroom testimony.
Designed for classroom use, each chapter contains key terms, learning objectives, a chapter summary, and review questions to test students' assimilation of the material. Ample diagrams, case studies, and photos demonstrate concepts in a way that prepares students for working actual cases.
Size: 9.04 MB
Vernon J. Geberth, "Practical Homicide Investigation Checklist and Field Guide, Second Edition"
Practical Homicide Investigation: Tactics, Procedures, and Forensic Techniques, Fourth Edition has long been considered the "bible of homicide investigation." Designed to accompany this bestselling work, provides first responders, police personnel, and medical examiners and coroners with essential checklists that proceed step-by-step through the tactics, procedures, and forensic techniques that are mandatory in sudden and violent death inquiries. This new edition contains twice the material of the first edition, yet maintains its
concise, practical
format.
Topics include:
- Specific investigative duties at the death scene
- Suicide and equivocal death investigation
- Autoerotic fatalities and other sex-related deaths
- Fatal fires
- SIDS and Munchausen syndrome by proxy
- Police-related shootings and deadly force incidents
- Crime scene photograph documentation and videotaping protocols
- Guidelines for proper death notification to family members
Size: 2.54 MB
Essential Forensic Biology 2nd Edition- Alan Gunn
This book is an introduction to the application of biology in legal investigations. Fully revised and updated throughout, the second edition of this highly successful textbook offers an accessible overview to the essentials of the subject providing a balanced coverage of the range of organisms used as evidence in forensic investigations; invertebrates, vertebrates, plants and microbes.
The book provides an overview of the decay process and discusses the role of forensic indicators human fluids and
tissues,including blood cells, bloodstain pattern analysis, hair,
teeth,bones, and wounds. It also examines the study of forensic biology-in cases of suspicious death.
The coverage of molecular
techniques has been expanded throughout with additional material on bio terrorism and wildlife forensics now included. The use of DNA and RNA
for the identification of individuals and their personal characteristics is now covered along with a discussion of the ethical issues associated
with the maintenance of DNA databases.
Size: 8 MB
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