Techniques of Crime Scene Investigation, Sixth Edition examines concepts, field-tested techniques and procedures, and technical information concerning crime scene investigation. This comprehensive text has been widely adopted by police academies, community colleges, and universities. Focuses on the up-todate technologies police rely on to apprehend criminal perpetrators and to link them through trace evidence to crime scenes.
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This book is a basic textbook for use in college and university forensic science courses at the introductory level in which little or no prior knowledge of science has been assumed. Written by a veteran of 24 years of law enforcement, this book stresses the importance of understanding the critical nature of physical evidence and preservation of the crime scene as part of the case against a criminal defendant-making it an important tool for police academies that train recruits and veteran patrol officers and a useful manual for students of criminal justice who seek guidelines for proper collection and handling of physical evidence. This quick-reference manual for law enforcement presents known procedures for collecting, preserving and transmitting many types of evidence to a forensic lab for examination and analysis. Using 10 crime scenes as examples, it outlines the basic steps a team should follow to minimize the omission or contamination of evidence. This is a comprehensive manual for those individuals whose professional responsibilities include the processing of crime scenes.