Forensic Evidence Management

From the Crime Scene to the Courtroom
Herausgeber: Mozayani, Ashraf; Parish-Fisher, Casie

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

"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 Sce

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor and Francis
• Seitenzahl: 191
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 11mm
• Gewicht: 304g
• ISBN-13: 9780367778798
• ISBN-10: 0367778793
• Artikelnr.: 61211663

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword 1. Crime Scene Dynamics [Michael Kessler and Casie Parish Fisher]
2. Evidence Tracking and Secure Storage [Cassie Velasquez] 3. Evidence
Management of Fingerprints [Jack Flanders] 4. Biological Evidence:
Collection, Transportation and Preservation [Nathalie Zahra] 5. Sexual
Assault Evidence: Collection Techniques [Laurie Charles] 6. Evidence
Management Best Practices in Medicolegal Death Investigation [Dr. Jason
Wiersema, Michal Pierce, Allison Woody, and Michelle Sanford] 7. General
Principles and Techniques of Trace Evidence Collection [Patrick Buzzini and
Jorn Chi-Chung Yu] 8. Firearms Evidence: Documentation, Collection and
Preservation [Jay M. Stuart] 9. Introduction to Drug Evidence Handling
Procedures [Jasmine Drake] 10. Evidence Collection and Management for
Forensic Toxicology Analysis [Ashraf Mozayani] 11. Questioned Documents
[Claire Williamson] 12. Forensic Digital Evidence [Zeno Geradts] 13.
Evidence Collection for Arson Cases [Kenneth Wilson] 14. Forensic Art and
Imaging: Best Practices for Evidence Handling [Catyana Falsetti, Anthony
Falsetti, and Sandra Enslow] 15. Ethical Issues, Bias and Other Challenges
to Forensic Evidence Management [Carol Henderson, Ryan Swafford, and Adam
Itzkowitz]