Forensic Investigation Handbook: An Introduction to the Collection, Preservation, Analysis and Presentation of Evidence

Reference & Research Book News, August, 2005

HV8073

2005-041720

0-398-07579-4

Forensic investigation handbook; an introduction to the collection, preservation, analysis, and presentation of evidence.

Karagiozis, Michael Fitting and Richard Sgaglio.

C.C. Thomas, [c]2005

387 p.

$65.95

The authors, both course instructors for the American College of Forensic Examiners Institute's Certified Medical Investigators program, present a textbook reviewing the principles and practices of medical investigation. They present chapters discussing the basics of forensic science, the American judicial system, crimes and offences, physical and biological evidence, forensic investigation and photography, death and the forensic specialist, criminal profiling, death scene investigation, substances and abuses, and nuclear and biohazardous agents. They also add appendixes providing information on relevant US Supreme Court rulings, death penalty statutes in the US, and forensic science degree programs.