Full Description
Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual provides information, examples, and exercises for all aspects of crime scene investigation. The exercises will teach the proper techniques for securing, documenting, and searching a crime scene, how to visualize or enhance the evidence found, how to package and preserve the evidence, and how to reconstruct what happened at the crime scene. This manual is intended to accompany any crime scene investigation textbook. Written by a former crime scene investigator and forensic scientist, the information is practical, straightforward, and will be immediately applicable. Learn all the latest techniques and procedures including deconstructing first responder contamination, the preliminary walk-through, utilizing associative evidence, enhancing trace, biological, and chemical evidence, and reconstructing scenes through wound dynamics, glass fracture patterns, bloodstain patterns, ballistics, and more.
Contents
Section IEvidence Exercise A. Defining a Crime Scene Exercise B. Physical Evidence Exercise C. Locard Exchange PrincipleSection II: Initial Responsibilities and Beginning Scientific Crime Scene Investigation Exercise D. First Responders at Crime Scenes Exercise E. Crime Scene Security Exercise F. Preliminary Scene SurveySection III: Crime Scene Documentation Exercise G. Crime Scene Documentation - Notes Exercise H. Crime Scene Documentation - Videography Exercise I. Crime Scene Documentation - Photography Exercise J. Crime Scene Documentation - SketchingSection IV: Physical Evidence at Crime Scenes Exercise K. Physical Searches Exercise L. Visualization & Enhancement - Lighting Aids Exercise M. Visualization & Enhancement - Biological Evidence Exercise N. Visualization & Enhancement - Chemical Evidence Exercise O. Visualization & Enhancement - Combination Methods Exercise P. Packaging, Preservation, and Collection of EvidenceSection V: Crime Scene Reconstruction Exercise Q. Final Scene Survey Exercise R. Crime Scene Reconstruction - Wound Dynamics Exercise S. Crime Scene Reconstruction - Fracture Patterns Exercise T. Crime Scene Reconstruction - Bloodstain Patterns I Exercise U. Crime Scene Reconstruction - Bloodstain Patterns II Exercise V. Crime Scene Reconstruction - Shooting Investigation Exercise W. Crime Scene Reconstruction - Mock Scene Reconstruction Exercise X. Crime Scene Reconstruction - Report Writing
