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Crime Scene Management and Evidence Recovery is a must-have for first responders and crime scene investigators alike. Featuring step-by-step guidance on the techniques involved in crime scene management and evidence recovery, alongside hands-on advice and aide-memoirs from crime scene investigators, the second edition also includes clear scientific explanations and everyday examples for the non-specialist to recognize the importance difference that first responders can make.
List of contents
- 1: Roles and Responsibilites in Crime Scene Investigations
- 2: Crime Scene Preservation and Management
- 3: Recording the Scene - Sketches and Photography
- 4: Exhibit Handling
- 5: Forensic Evidence Recovery from Persons
- 6: Fingerprints
- 7: DNA
- 8: Blood Pattern Analysis (BPA)
- 9: Death Investigation
- 10: Firearms and Ballistic Evidence
- 11: Footwear, Tyre, and Tool Marks
- 12: Glass, Paint and Soils
- 13: Hair and Fibres
- 14: Drugs of Abuse
- 15: Document Examination
About the author
Deborah Beaufort-Moore is a Freelance Forensic Trainer, , instructing students, law enforcement and emergency services personnel, on university courses and within disaster victim identification agencies.
Former Detective Superintendent Tony Cook was a Senior Investigating Officer with Greater Manchester Police and is now a PIP Level III & IV accredited Regional SIO Advisor working for the National Crime Agency. His role involves advising SIOs and enquiry teams on best practice, useful techniques and procedures and is engaged in supporting numerous UK high profile serious and complex crime cases. He delivers training inputs to SIODP, DIDP and IMSC courses and is an active member of the International Homicide Investigators Association (IHIA). He has written published articles relating to major crime investigation, is the co-author of Blackstone's Crime Investigators' Handbook and Blackstone's Senior Investigating Officers' Handbook, and an administrator for the Major Crime Investigation community on PoLKA.
Summary
A highly practical and invaluable introduction to crime scene management and evidence recovery for all first response officers. Offers step-by-step guidance on the various analysis techniques involved in forensic examination alongside clear scientific explanations written specifically for the non-specialist.
