RealWorld Crime Scene Investigation: A StepbyStep Procedure Manual

RealWorld Crime Scene Investigation: A StepbyStep Procedure Manual is designed as a field guide providing instruction on how to document a crime scene, including sketching, mapping, searching, collecting, and preserving physical evidence. It also addresses how to document a crime scene using photography and videography. It introduces modern forensic equipment, processing procedures, techniques, and methods. Interspersed throughout the book, hints and cautions provide tips on how to efficiently accomplish specific tasks or to warn crime scene personnel about commonly made errors.In using this book, readers will understand the specifics of various types of crime scenes in regard to documentation and gathering evidence. Its stepbystep approach allows quick learning of how to approach each crime scene to ensure a full investigation is conducted.RealWorld Crime Scene Investigation looks at the entire process of crime scene investigationfrom securing the crime scene and collecting evidence to how the evidence, once analyzed, can help investigators recreate events. Author Gabrielle Suboch draws upon her more than 25 years of handson crime scene investigation, and her years teaching at several colleges, to provide a comprehensive and highly readable resource on crime scene investigation.