Practical crime scene processing and investigation. (©2012)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Practical crime scene processing and investigation. (©2012)
- Main Title:
- Practical crime scene processing and investigation
- Further Information:
- Note: Ross M. Gardner.
- Other Names:
- Gardner, Ross M
- Contents:
- Introduction -- Police goals and objectives -- Evidence defined -- Interpretive value of evidence -- Good crime scene examinations and scene integrity issues -- Investigative ethics. 2. Understanding the nature of physical evidence -- Class and individual characteristics -- Fingerprint evidence -- Serology and biological evidence -- Trace evidence -- Hairs and fibers -- Glass -- Paints and polymers -- Soils -- gunshot residues (GSRs) -- Firearm and ballistic evidence -- Tool mark evidence -- Impression evidence -- General chemical evidence -- Document evidence -- Computer forensics -- Forensic pathology. 3. Actions of the initial responding officer -- Specific objectives of the initial response -- Documenting initial information -- Officer safety -- Emergency care -- Secure and control the crime scene -- Release the scene to appropriate authorities. 4. Processing methodology -- Basic activities of scene processing -- Assessing -- Observing -- Documenting -- Searching -- Collecting -- Processing / analyzing -- A processing model -- The adapted USACIDC processing model -- Initial notification -- Coordination, assessment, and team call-out -- Conduct initial observation -- Deal with the deceased -- Photograph the scene -- Document overall observations -- Sketch the scene -- Conduct a first recheck -- Release the body -- Collect items of evidence -- Conduct a second recheck of the scene -- Conduct a third recheck of the scene -- Check beyond the scene -- Conduct an on-sceneIntroduction -- Police goals and objectives -- Evidence defined -- Interpretive value of evidence -- Good crime scene examinations and scene integrity issues -- Investigative ethics. 2. Understanding the nature of physical evidence -- Class and individual characteristics -- Fingerprint evidence -- Serology and biological evidence -- Trace evidence -- Hairs and fibers -- Glass -- Paints and polymers -- Soils -- gunshot residues (GSRs) -- Firearm and ballistic evidence -- Tool mark evidence -- Impression evidence -- General chemical evidence -- Document evidence -- Computer forensics -- Forensic pathology. 3. Actions of the initial responding officer -- Specific objectives of the initial response -- Documenting initial information -- Officer safety -- Emergency care -- Secure and control the crime scene -- Release the scene to appropriate authorities. 4. Processing methodology -- Basic activities of scene processing -- Assessing -- Observing -- Documenting -- Searching -- Collecting -- Processing / analyzing -- A processing model -- The adapted USACIDC processing model -- Initial notification -- Coordination, assessment, and team call-out -- Conduct initial observation -- Deal with the deceased -- Photograph the scene -- Document overall observations -- Sketch the scene -- Conduct a first recheck -- Release the body -- Collect items of evidence -- Conduct a second recheck of the scene -- Conduct a third recheck of the scene -- Check beyond the scene -- Conduct an on-scene debriefing of the investigative team -- Release or secure the scene -- Process and package evidence -- Conduct a formal debriefing. 5. Assessing the scene -- Debriefing the responding officers -- Scene scope and boundary assessment -- Scene integrity and contamination control -- Managing access -- Defining team composition -- Crime scene search considerations -- Search patterns -- Circle or spiral search -- Strip and line search -- Grid search -- Zone search -- Point-to-point search -- Personal protective measures and hazard identification -- Biohazard risks -- considerations for mass crime scene and mass casualty situations -- Pre-event considerations of crime scene supervisors -- Practical on-scene considerations for the mass scene -- Managing the media. 6. Crime scene photography -- What makes good photographs -- Recurring problems in crime scene photography -- Identification problems -- Orientation problems -- Confusion problems -- Incomplete documentation -- Types and purpose of crime scene photographs -- Overall photographs -- Corner or side: you decide -- Evidence-establishing photographs -- What's in a name: evidence-establishing vs. mid-range photos -- Evidence close-up and forensic quality photographs -- Road mapping method of photographic documentation -- Basic methodology to crime scene photography -- Camera control issues -- Video photography. 7. Crime scene sketching and mapping -- Essential sketch elements -- Variations of view in sketches -- Methods for crime scene mapping -- Rectangular coordinates -- Triangulation -- Baseline coordinates -- Polar coordinates -- Triangulation or rectangular coordinates on a grid -- Triangulation on a baseline -- Technology in support of crime scene mapping -- Total station mapping -- Scan station mapping. 8. Narrative descriptions : crime scene notes and reports -- Investigative notes -- Crime scene reports -- Characteristics of the scene -- Conditions of the scene -- Environmental conditions -- Factors pertinent to entry and exit -- Scene documentation -- Collection of physical evidence -- Search for latent fingerprints or DNA -- Additional examinations. 9. Basic skills for scene processing / Ross M. Gardner with don Coffey, Jeremy John and Tom Adair -- Applying light technology -- Shortwave ultraviolet light and reflected ultraviolet imaging systems (RUVIS) -- Longwave ultraviolet light -- Near-UV and violet/blue light -- Crime scene search with blue light -- Orange-red -- Infrared -- Heat energy and thermal imaging -- Choosing an alternative light source -- Recovering fingerprints -- The science of fingerprints -- Classification vs. identification -- AFIS fingerprint systems -- Collecting fingerprint evidence -- Surface characteristics -- Porous surfaces -- Nonporous smooth surfaces -- Nonporous rough surfaces -- Special surfaces or conditions -- On-scene fingerprinting techniques -- Cyanoacrylate fuming (superglue fuming) -- Basic brush-and-powder techniques -- Small-particle reagent -- Adding machine paper technique for human skin -- Crystal violet solution for adhesive tape -- Fingerprints in fire scenes -- Casting impression evidence -- Rubber casting compounds -- Electrostatic dust lifting devices -- Dental stone casting techniques -- Snow prints -- Gelatin and other adhesive lifters. 10. Shooting scene documentation and reconstruction / Ross M. Gardner and Michael Maloney -- Internal ballistics -- Terminal ballistics -- External ballistics -- Bullet defect verification through chemical evaluation -- Defining the bullet impact angle based on defect shape -- Direction of fire -- Use of trajectory rods and lasers to demonstrate bullet flight paths -- Describing zones of possibility -- Trajectory analysis documentation. 11. Applying bloodstain pattern analysis in the crime scene -- Bloodstain pattern analysis -- Theory and underlying principles of bloodstain pattern analysis -- The pattern diversity principle -- The principle of stain shape and vector correlation -- The physically altered bloodstain principle -- Methodology of BPA -- Classifying bloodstain patterns -- Documenting bloodstain patterns -- Presumptive tests for bloodstains -- Luminol enhancement of latent bloodstains -- Fluorescein enhancement of latent bloodstains -- Amido-black enhancement of latent bloodstains -- Infrared photography. 12. The body as a crime scene / Ross M. Gardner and Michael Maloney -- Examination of the corpse in situ -- Assessing -- Observing, documenting, searching, and collecting -- Examination of the corpse at the morgue -- Examination of a live individual -- Understanding basic mechanisms of injuries. 13. Special scene considerations -- Fire scenes -- Fire patterns -- Problems associated with fire scenes -- Fire scene methodology -- Landfill recoveries -- Problems associated with landfill recoveries -- Landfill recovery methodology -- buried and scattered remains -- Buried bodies -- Scattered remains -- Entomological evidence associated with bodies. 14. The role of crime scene analysis and reconstruction -- History of the concept of crime scene reconstruction -- Underlying principles of crime scene reconstruction -- Crime scene reconstruction methodology -- Scientific method used to resolve a specific investigative question -- Event analysis: reconstructing entire events -- Collect data, establish likely events -- Establish event segments from the data available -- Define associated event segments -- Order and sequence the associated event segments -- Audit the information -- Determine and final-order the events -- Final flowchart of the overall incident based on the event and event segment sequence -- Appendix A: Crime scene equipment -- Appendix B: Risk management. … (more)
- Edition:
- 2nd ed
- Publisher Details:
- Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press
- Publication Date:
- 2012
- Copyright Date:
- 2012
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (xxxi, 466 pages), illustrations (chiefly color)
- Subjects:
- 363.25/2
Crime scene searches
Criminal investigation
Evidence, Criminal
Crime scene searches
Criminal investigation
Evidence, Criminal - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781439897782
1439897786 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781439853023
1439853029 - Notes:
- Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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