Forensic Evidence Management - From the Crime Scene to the Courtroom (Hardcover)

"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 PowerPointTM slides are available for download from the Taylor & Francis ancillary Web site for qualifying course adopters.

General

Imprint:	Productivity Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	December 2017
First published:	2018
Editors:	Ashraf Mozayani • Casie Parish-Fisher
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	191
ISBN-13:	978-1-4987-7718-6
Categories:	Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Criminal law Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Forensic science Books > Law > Laws of other jurisdictions & general law > Courts & procedure > General
LSN:	1-4987-7718-X
Barcode:	9781498777186

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