Full Description
The Science of Crime Scenes addresses the science of crime scene investigation and processing, including the latest methods and technologies. This book covers the philosophy of crime scenes as historical events, the personnel involved at a scene (including the media), the detection of criminal traces and their reconstruction, and special crime scenes, such as mass disasters and terrorist events. Written by an international trio of authors with decades of crime scene experience, it is the next generation of crime scene textbooks.
The book provides in-depth coverage of disasters and mass murder, terror crime scenes, and CBRN (chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear) - topics not covered in any other text. It includes an instructor website with lecture slides, test bank, outlines, definitions, and activities, along with a student companion site with an image collection.
This text will be of interest to advanced undergraduate and graduate students in forensic science programs, as well as to forensic practitioners and crime scene technicians.
Contents
SECTION 1: THE SCIENCE OF CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION1.0 The "forensic mindset"1.1 From scene to laboratory to court2.0 What is a crime scene?2.1 Crime scene intelligence: Connecting people, places, and things
SECTION 2: PERSONNEL AND PROCEDURES3.0 Personnel3.1 First responder on the scene3.2 The investigator in charge3.3 The forensic team: Officers, scientists and specialists3.4 Non-forensic personnel: Superiors, officials, and the media4.0 General crime scene procedure4.1 "Freezing” the scene and the 3R's (Recognize, Record and Recover)4.2 The chain of custody4.3 Recording the scene: Sketching, photography, and video
SECTION 3: DETECTION AND RECONSTRUCTION5.0 Searching for evidence: Recovery5.1 Detecting5.2 Collection5.3 Preserving5.4 Submitting evidence to the laboratory6.0 Evidence types and enhancement6.1 Chemical evidence6.2 Biological evidence6.3 Impression evidence6.4 Other evidence types7.0 Crime scene reconstruction7.1 An archaeological approach7.2 Bloodstain pattern analysis7.3 Photogrammetry and 3D reconstruction
SECTION 4: SPECIAL CRIME SCENES8.0 Special crime scenes8.1 Disaster and mass fatalities8.2 Terrorist crime scenes8.3 CBRN crime scenes8.4 Underwater and underground crime scenes
