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1 online resource (xxvii, 392 pages) : illustrations (some color), maps
The recent National Research Council's report on forensic science calls for more fundamental education and training in the science behind the discipline. Nowhere is this need greater than in crime scene investigations. Long seen as merely "bagging and tagging," crime scene investigation and processing is now a complex process, involving numerous sciences and methods. The Science of Crime Scenes addresses the science behind the scenes and demonstrates the latest methods and technologies in depth. The Science of Crime Scenes 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 terroristic events. Written by an international trio of authors with decades of crime scene experience, The Science of Crime Scenes is the next generation of crime scene textbooks.
Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- The science of crime scene investigation -- The "forensic mindset" -- From scene to laboratory to court -- What is a crime scene? -- Crime scene intelligence : connecting people, places, and things -- Personnel and procedures -- Personnel -- First responder on the scene -- The investigator in charge -- The forensic team: officers, scientists and specialists -- Non-forensic personnel : superiors, officials, and the media -- General crime scene procedure -- "Freezing" the scene and the 3R's (recognize, record and recover) -- The chain of custody -- Recording the scene: sketching, photography, and video -- Detection and reconstruction -- Searching for evidence : recovery -- Detecting -- Collection -- Preserving -- Submitting evidence to the laboratory -- Evidence types and enhancement -- Chemical evidence -- Biological evidence -- Impression evidence -- Other evidence types -- Crime scene reconstruction -- An archaeological approach -- Bloodstain pattern analysis -- Photogrammetry and 3d reconstruction -- Special crime scenes -- Special crime scenes -- Disaster and mass fatalities -- Terrorist crime scenes -- Cbrn crime scenes -- Underwater and underground crime scenes -- Subject index.
Max M. Houck, Frank Crispino, Terry McAdam.
Includes bibliographical references and index.