Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook, Second Edition

✍ Scribed by Christine R. Ramirez (Author); Casie L. Parish-Fisher (Author)

• Publisher: CRC Press
• Year: 2020
• Leaves: 289
• Edition: 2
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook, Second Edition is the only workbook which directly supports and cross-references methodology and terminology presented in Ross Gardner and Donna Krouskup’s perennial best-seller Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigations, Third Edition. The workbook serves as supporting material offering hands-on activities to supplement theories and methodologies within the text as well as updated activities to support the new material presented in the Third Edition.

As the number of forensic academic programs within the United States continue to grow—and the textbook continues to be a go-to standard in the field—the workbook remains an invaluable reference for academics, forensic training providers, and law enforcement training programs. The detailed Instructor’s Manual (IM) lends itself not only to experts who have utilized these procedures before but also to the novice and student who may be introduced to these topics in a classroom setting for the first time. The workbook conducts over 30 activities with detailed instructions, concept overviews, and reflective post-lab questions. Crime Scene Processing and Investigation Workbook, Second Edition, continues to stand as the best workbook on the market, addressing foundational principles in a hands-on manner while directly correlating to the concepts addressed in the Gardner and Krouskup textbook.

✦ Table of Contents

Chapter 1 Introduction

1.1 Evaluating the Interpretive Value of Evidence

1.2 CSI Effect

1.3 Crime Scene Examination: Methodology and Integrity Issues

Chapter 2 The Nature of Physical Evidence

2.1 Identifying Characteristics of Evidence

2.2 Evidence Processing

2.3 Mechanical Fit through Evidence Reconstruction

2.4 Evidence Collection and Packaging

2.5 Chain of Custody

Chapter 3 Actions of the Initial Responding Officer

3.1 Creating a Crime Scene Control Log

Chapter 4 Processing Methodology

4.1 Utilizing a Descriptive Set in Evidence Documentation

Chapter 5 Assessing the Scene

5.1 Establishing Crime Scene Perimeters

5.2 Conducting Crime Scene Searches

Chapter 6 Crime Scene Photography

6.1 Photography in Manual Mode

6.2 Capturing Range Photographs

6.3 Documenting a Crime Scene

Chapter 7 Crime Scene Sketching and Mapping

7.1 Measuring with English and Metric Rulers

7.2 Creating an Indoor Sketch

7.3 Creating an Outdoor Sketch

7.4 Sketching a Crime Scene

Chapter 8 Narrative Descriptions: Crime Scene Notes

and Reports

8.1 Creating a Field Note Document Template

Chapter 9 Light Technology in Crime Scene Processing

9.1 Scene Processing with an ALS

9.2 Photographing Fluorescent Evidence

Chapter 10 Basic Skills for Scene Processing:

Fingerprint Evidence

10.1 Capturing Examination-Quality Fingerprints

10.2 Fingerprint Pattern Examination

10.3 Cyanoacrylate Ester Fuming and Fingerprint Powder

10.4 Fluorescent Powder Processing

10.5 Post CA Fuming: Fluorescent Dye Stain Processing (Basic Yellow 40)

10.6 Fingerprint Development on Adhesive Tape: Crystal Violet

Post Lab Questions

10.7 Fingerprint Development on Adhesive Tape: Sticky Side Powder

10.8 Fingerprint Development on Absorbent Substrates: Iodine

10.9 Fingerprint Development on Absorbent Surfaces: Ninhydrin

10.10 Print Development with Small Particle Reagent

10.11 Recovering Fingerprints from Burned Items

Chapter 11 Basic Skills for Scene Processing:

Impression Evidence11.1 Impression Casting: Dental Stone

11.2 Impression Casting: Mikrosil

11.3 Print Lifting: Gelatin Lifter

11.4 Collecting Known Standards: Footwear Standards

Chapter 12 Shooting Scenes: Evidence and Documentation

12.1 Application of Firearms and Ballistics Terminology

12.2 Who Gets the Assignment?

12.3 Wound Identification

Chapter 13 Applying Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

at the Crime Scene

13.1 Determining Directionality of Bloodstains

13.2 Determining Angle of Impact

13.3 Creation and Analysis of Impact Angles

13.4 False-Positive Exercise

13.5 Presumptive Tests

Chapter 14 Special Scene Considerations

14.1 The Scientific Method in Fire Investigation by Kenneth Wilson, Fire

Marshal, Azle, Texas

14.2 The Value of Fire Patterns and Fire Signs by Kenneth Wilson, Fire

Marshal, Azle, Texas

14.3 Burial Recovery

Chapter 15 The Body as a Crime Scene

15.1 The Body by Marissa Valencia, Deputy Chief Investigator, Travis

County Medical Examiner’s Office, Austin, Texas

15.2 Entomology

Chapter 16 The Role of Crime Scene Analysis and

Reconstruction

16.1 Journal Article Review

16.2 The Scientific Method

16.3 Flowcharting Event Segments