Forensic Science

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In high-profile investigations, when the suspect pool is very large, resources are unduly strained unless the pool can be narrowed down to the most likely offenders. The Persons of Interest Priority Assessment Tool (POIPAT) provides an objective and consistent means of establishing a priority rankin..

Written by an expert with seventeen years experience in law enforcement, this volume is a succinct guide on how to manage physical evidence essential for solving a case and making the evidence stand up in court. It covers securing the scene, searching for and identifying evidence, documenting the ev..

Examines the applications of logic and science to deciphering chaotic death scenes and difficult cases and to deriving orderly explanations from their jumbled clues. This book is suitable for investigators as well as forensic pathologists, coroners, prosecutors, and defense attorneys...

Death and Accident Investigation Protocols..

Moving systematically from general definition through explanation, this comprehensive volume presents the field of death investigation, the coroners and medical examiners who practice it, and the goal of medical, legal, institutional, and privately requested investigations. The author includes case ..

A field guide that provides easy direction for the death scene investigator. Organized in an easily accessible outline format, it covers protocols and guidelines, assessment and examination, use of medical history and records, autopsy, and death certification. It also includes a medical glossary, an..

Active researchers from Europe and the US contribute must-have information on everything you need to know about drug testing in hair. Drug Testing in Hair validates hair testing as an accepted form of evidence for use in courts and elsewhere, such as the military and the workplace. It presents data ..

Ethics and the Practice of Forensic Science, 2e explores the ethical issues facing those who work in the forensic sciences, highlighting the complicated nature of ethics and decision-making at the crime scene, lab, and in the courts. This edition provides a new chapter on the "Ferguson Effect" faced..

A suspect, prisoner, or psychiatric patient becomes violent. The officer or hospital staff struggles to control the person, sometimes with handcuffs or four point restraints. Shortly afterward, the patient dies. This illustrates Excited Delirium Syndrome, a condition in which normal physiological ch..

Contains the identification capabilities for 468 different formulations for explosives and chemical weapons. This book presents detailed descriptions for each of these formulations by breaking down their materials into five concise categories: common name, synonym, class, ingredients, and use...

Offers up-to-date treatment of fingerprint detection with lasers, including basic principles and equipment, established photoluminescence-based detection techniques and a range of emerging techniques. This second edition summarizes information on time-resolved fingerprint detection, transition selec..