
Shooting Incident Reconstruction
Description
Key Features
- New chapters on special reconstructive properties and value of shootings involving sub-machine guns or pseudo automatic firearms, rate of fire with special attention on shot-to-shot time intervals, human factors in shooting incidents
- Updated and revised glossary terms to fit with new technology and the emergence of standardization of terms by groups such as the Organization of Scientific Advisory Committees
- Provides clear practice standards and ethical guidelines for those involved in reconstructing shooting scenes
Readership
Crime Scene Investigators, Forensic Scientists, Forensic Trainees, Medical Investigators (scene and autopsy), Attorneys and Judges, Undergrad and Graduate Forensic Programs, and Law Libraries
Table of Contents
1. Case Approach, Philosophy, and Objectives
2. Working Shooting Scenes
3. The Reconstructive Aspects of Class Characteristics and a Limited Universe
4. Is It a Bullet Hole?
5. Some Useful Reagents and Their Application
6. Distance and Orientation Derived from Gunshot Residue Patterns
7. Projectile Penetration and Perforation
8. Projectiles and Glass
9. Projectile Ricochet and Deflection
10. The Principles of "Trajectory" Reconstruction
11. Determining Bullet Track in Gunshot Victims
12. Trace Evidence Considerations Associate with Firearms
13. True Ballistics: Long-Range Shootings and Falling Bullets
14. Cartridge Case Ejection and Ejection Patterns
15. The Shooting of Motor Vehicles
16. Shotgun Shootings and Evidence
17. Sound Level of Gunshots, Supersonic Bullets, and Other Impulse Sounds
18. Ultimate Objectives, Reports, and Court Presentations
Product details
- No. of pages: 580
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2020
- Published: October 10, 2020
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128193969
- Hardcover ISBN: 9780128193976
About the Authors
Michael Haag
Affiliations and Expertise
Lucien Haag
Affiliations and Expertise
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