This lab manual provides information, examples, and exercises for all aspect 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 textbook in crime scene investigation. 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. Designed to complement any text used in crime scene investigation courses Over 20+ proven exercises with material from actual crime scenes, providing student with hands-on learning Written by experienced educator and former crime scene investigator/forensic scientist INDICE: Section I: Crime Scene Investigation-Scientific Methodology and Physical Evidence Exercise A. Defining a Crime Scene Exercise B. Physical Evidence Exercise C. Locard Exchange Principle Section 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 Survey Section 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 - Sketching Section 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 Evidence Section 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
- ISBN: 978-0-12-405197-3
- Editorial: Academic Press
- Encuadernacion: Desconocida
- Páginas: 288
- Fecha Publicación: 02/02/2014
- Nº Volúmenes: 1
- Idioma: Inglés