Forensic Evidence Management - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0367778793 ISBN 13 : 9780367778798

Editeur : CRC Press, 2021

Synopsis

"Evidence management has become a crucial component for the law enforcement community. I truly believe this book is essential in assisting criminal investigators and a valuable resource for managing evidence."—Jeremiah Sullivan, Chairman, Board of Directors, Texas Division of the International Association for Identification; Senior Crime Scene Specialist (Retired). Austin Police Department

As technology and technical applications continue to advance in the forensic sciences, the undertakings at crime scenes have become even more critical. Crime scene investigators must ensure that evidence is properly collected, document, packaged, and stored in a manner that maximizes the ability of laboratories to derive meaning and results from the evidence provided them.

Forensic Evidence Management: From the Crime Scene to the Courtroom

provides best practices policies for forensic science entities and their employees to maintain chain of custody and evidence integrity throughout the course of evidence collection, storage, preservation, and processing.

The focus of the book will be to address the issues related with evidence handling and analysis inside the forensic laboratory, in particular, and to offer best practices and guidelines from leading forensic experts in the field. Forms of evidence covered include biological, chemical, trace, firearm, toolmark, fingerprint, and a host of others types recovered at crime scenes. The book concludes with a chapter on ethics, bias, and ethical practices in evidence handling in the field and laboratory analysis.

Test Bank and PowerPoint^TM slides are available for download from the Taylor & Francis ancillary Web site for qualifying course adopters.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Dr. Ashraf Mozayani has been an internationally recognized forensic scientist for more than twenty years. She is the Executive Director of Forensic Sciences and a professor at Texas Southern University. She is also Senior Forensic Science Advisor and Instructor for the International Criminal Investigative Training Assistance Program (ICITAP), under the aegis of the Criminal Division of the U.S. Department of Justice.

Casie Parish Fisher has previously worked as a crime scene technician with the Austin Police Department and as a DNA analyst at the Texas Department of Public Safety CODIS Laboratory. For the past 7 years, she has been the Director of the Forensic Science Program at St. Edward's University where she oversees two degree programs.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: CRC Press
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0367778793
• ISBN 13: 9780367778798
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 191
• Éditeur: Mozayani Ashraf, Fisher Casie Parish
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