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050 00 HV8073 |b.G32 2012
100 1 Gardner, Ross M
245 10 Practical crime scene processing and investigation /|cRoss
M. Gardner.
250 2nd ed
260 Boca Raton,FL :|bCRC Press,|c2012
300 xxxi,466 p.:|bill. (chiefly col.) ;|c26 cm.
490 CRC series in practical aspects of criminal and forensic
investigations
504 Includes bibliographical references and index.
505 0 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-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 an 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.
650 0 Crime scene searches
650 0 Criminal investigation
650 0 Evidence, Criminal
856 42 Contributor biographical information |uhttp://www.loc.gov/
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