Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual (2nd Edition)

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  • ISBN: 9780128128459
  • Publisher: Elsevier Science Publishing
  • Edition: 2nd
  • Publication Date: February 6, 2018
  • Format: Paperback – 264 pages
  • Language: English

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Crime Scene Investigation Laboratory Manual, Second Edition, is written by a former crime scene investigator and forensic scientist who provides practical, straightforward, and immediately applicable best practices. Readers will learn 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. This lab manual provides information and examples for all aspects of crime scene investigation.

In addition, included exercises teach the proper techniques for securing, documenting and searing 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 crime scene investigation textbook.

Key Features
  • Designed to complement any text used in crime scene investigation courses
  • Contains over 20+ proven exercises and material from actual crime scenes, providing students with hands-on learning
  • Written by an experienced educator and former crime scene investigator/forensic scientist
Table of Contents
  1. SECTION I
    1. Exercise A: Defining a Crime Scene
    2. Laboratory Data Sheet
    3. Discussion Questions
    4. Exercise B: Physical Evidence at Crime Scenes
    5. Laboratory Data Sheet
    6. Discussion Questions
    7. Exercise C: Locard Exchange Principle
    8. Laboratory Data Sheet
    9. Discussion Questions
  2. SECTION II
    1. Exercise D: First Responders at Crime Scenes
    2. Laboratory Data Sheet
    3. Discussion Questions
    4. Exercise E: Crime Scene Security
    5. Multilevel Crime Scene Security
    6. Laboratory Data Sheet
    7. Discussion Questions
    8. Exercise F: Preliminary Scene Survey
    9. Laboratory Data Sheet
    10. Discussion Questions
  3. SECTION III
    1. Exercise G: Crime Scene Documentation: Notes
    2. Laboratory Data Sheet
    3. Discussion Questions
    4. Exercise H: Crime Scene Documentation: Videography
    5. Laboratory Data Sheet
    6. Discussion Questions
    7. Exercise I: Crime Scene Documentation: Photography
    8. Laboratory Data Sheet
    9. Discussion Questions
    10. Special Topic: Laser Scanners at Crime Scenes
    11. Exercise J: Crime Scene Documentation: Sketching
    12. Laboratory Data Sheet
    13. Discussion Questions
  4. SECTION IV
    1. Exercise K: Physical Searches
    2. Objectives of a Crime Scene Search
    3. General Concepts of Crime Scene Searches
    4. Crime Scene Search Patterns
    5. Laboratory Data Sheet
    6. Discussion Questions
    7. Exercise L: Visualization and Enhancement: Lighting Aids
    8. Specific Evidence Applications
    9. Photographic Methods
    10. Laboratory Data Sheet
    11. Discussion Questions
    12. Exercise M: Visualization and Enhancement: Biological Evidence
    13. Biological Evidence and Pattern Enhancement Reagents
    14. Field Tests for Biological Evidence
    15. Laboratory Data Sheet
    16. Discussion Questions
    17. Exercise N: Visualization and Enhancement: Chemical Evidence
    18. Tests for Gunshot Residue (GSR)
    19. Tests for Explosive Residues
    20. Tests for Controlled Substances and Drugs
    21. Laboratory Data Sheet
    22. Discussion Questions
    23. Exercise O: Visualization and Enhancement: Combination Methods
    24. Impression Evidence
    25. Laboratory Data Sheet
    26. Discussion Questions
    27. Exercise P: Packaging, Preservation, and Collection of Evidence
    28. Laboratory Data Sheet
    29. Discussion Questions
  5. SECTION V
    1. Exercise Q: Final Scene Survey
    2. Laboratory Data Sheet
    3. Discussion Questions
    4. Exercise R: Crime Scene Reconstruction: Wound Dynamics
    5. Wound Dynamics
    6. Laboratory Data Sheet
    7. Discussion Questions
    8. Exercise S: Crime Scene Reconstruction: Glass Fracture Patterns
    9. Laboratory Data Sheet
    10. Discussion Questions
    11. Exercise T: Crime Scene Reconstruction: Bloodstain Patterns I
    12. Basic Bloodstain Patterns
    13. Laboratory Data Sheet
    14. Discussion Questions
    15. Exercise U: Crime Scene Reconstruction: Bloodstain Patterns II
    16. Impacted Bloodstain Spatters Pattern
    17. Repetitive Dripping Patterns
    18. Arterial Gushes (Projected Blood)
    19. Point of Origin of Bloodshed Determinations
    20. Laboratory Data Sheet
    21. Discussion Questions
    22. Exercise V: Crime Scene Reconstruction: Shooting Investigations
    23. Muzzle-to-Target Distance Determinations
    24. Methods for Trajectory Determinations
    25. Experimentation of Trajectories
    26. Projectiles and Casings
    27. Laboratory Data Sheet
    28. Discussion Questions
    29. Exercise W: Crime Scene Reconstruction: Report Writing and Mock Scene Reconstruction
    30. Laboratory Data Sheet
    31. Discussion Questions
    32. Answer Bank for Discussion Questions
  6. Appendix I: Solutions and Reagents
  7. Appendix II: Glossary of Terms
  8. Index
Author Description

Marilyn Miller is a graduate of Florida Southern College with a bachelor’s degree in chemistry. She earned a master’s degree in forensic chemistry from the University of Pittsburgh and a Doctorate in Education from Johnson & Wales University in post-secondary educational leadership. Miller is a tenured, associate professor in the Department of Forensic Science at Virginia Commonwealth University. As a post-secondary educator for almost twenty years, she teaches a wide variety of forensic science and crime scene investigation classes to both forensic science and criminal justice majors at the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is a Fellow in the Criminalistics section of the American Academy of Forensic Science, the Southern Association of Forensic Scientists and the American Chemical Society.

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