
Anabolic Steroid Abuse in Public Safety Personnel
A Forensic Manual
Description
Key Features
- Provides readers with information on both the history and overwhelming evidence relating to steroid abuse in the law enforcement subculture
- An investigative and forensic desk reference manual for investigators and attorneys
- Pays particular attention to forensic issues, including investigative, evidentiary, and legal concerns
Readership
Table of Contents
About the Authors
Foreward by: Captain Jeff Pearce, Spotsvania County (Virginia) Sheriff’s Office
Chapter 1: Introduction
Chapter 2: Terms and Definitions
Chapter 3: The Problem: Anabolic Steroids and Law Enforcement Culture
Chapter 4: Legal Use: Prescriptions for Anabolic Steroids
Chapter 5: Profiles of Abuse and Addiction: Understanding the Adverse Side Effects of Anabolic Steroid Abuse
Chapter 6: Motivations & Rationalizations: The Psychology of Anabolic Steroid Abuse
Chapter 7: Scandals & Consequence: Exploring Anabolic Steroid Abuse in Public Safety
Chapter 8: Policies and Reforms
References
Product details
- No. of pages: 158
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2015
- Published: January 12, 2015
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128028773
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128028254
About the Authors
Brent Turvey

Brent E. Turvey spent his first years in college on a pre-med track only to change his course of study once his true interests took hold. He received a Bachelor of Science degree from Portland State University in Psychology, with an emphasis on Forensic Psychology, and an additional Bachelor of Science degree in History. He went on to receive his Masters of Science in Forensic Science after studying at the University of New Haven, in West Haven, Connecticut.
Since graduating in 1996, Brent has consulted with many agencies, attorneys, and police departments in the United States, Australia, China, Canada, Barbados and Korea on a range of rapes, homicides, and serial/ multiple rape/ death cases, as a forensic scientist and criminal profiler. He has also been court qualified as an expert in the areas of criminal profiling, forensic science, victimology, and crime reconstruction. In August of 2002, he was invited by the Chinese People's Police Security University (CPPSU) in Beijing to lecture before groups of detectives at the Beijing, Wuhan, Hanzou, and Shanghai police bureaus. In 2005, he was invited back to China again, to lecture at the CPPSU, and to the police in Beijing and Xian - after the translation of the 2nd edition of his text into Chinese for the University. In 2007, he was invited to lecture at the 1st Behavioral Sciences Conference at the Home Team (Police) Academy in Singapore, where he also provided training to their Behavioral Science Unit. In 2012 Brent completed his PhD in Criminology from Bond University in Gold Coast, Australia.
He is the author of Criminal Profiling: An Introduction to Behavioral Evidence Analysis, 1st, 2nd, 3rd and 4th Editions (1999, 2002, 2008, 2011); co- author of the Rape Investigation Handbook, 1st and 2nd Editions (2004, 2011), Crime Reconstruction 1st and 2nd Editions (2006, 2011), Forensic Victimology (2008) and Forensic Fraud (2013) - all with Elsevier Science. He is currently a full partner, Forensic Scientist, Criminal Profiler, and Instructor with Forensic Solutions, LLC, and an Adjunct Professor of Justice Studies at Oklahoma City University. He can be contacted via email at: bturvey@forensic-science.com.
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