
The Crime Scene
A Visual Guide
Description
Key Features
- Provides coverage of techniques, documentation and reconstruction of crime scenes
- Shows side-by-side comparisons of the correct vs. incorrect process
- Online website hosts videos and additional instructional materials
Readership
Crime scene investigators and those in training, medico-legal investigators, and forensic science labs. Law enforcement officers, fire fighters and investigators, accident investigators, private investigators / attorneys and forensic science programs
Table of Contents
1. Forensic Scene Investigation
2. First Responders, Legal Concerns, Scene Security, Safety and Preliminary Scene Survey
3. Forensic Scene Documentation-Videography
4. Forensic Scene Documentation-Photography
5. Forensic Scene Documentation-Measuring and Sketching
6. Enhancement, Visualization, and Presumptive Testing
7. Forensic Scene Reconstruction
8. Evidence and Its Probative Value
9. Evidence Collection
10. Evidence Packaging
11. Evidence Preservation
12. Technology
13. Concluding Thoughts
Product details
- No. of pages: 344
- Language: English
- Copyright: © Academic Press 2018
- Published: September 6, 2018
- Imprint: Academic Press
- eBook ISBN: 9780128129616
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128129609
About the Authors
Marilyn Miller
Affiliations and Expertise
Peter Massey
Peter Massey embodies the true essence of what UNH strives for in an educator by combining a forensic science educational background with significant work and life experience in the practical application of his profession as a patrolman and detective. Peter brings this training, skills and experience to his students allowing him the ability to enhance his lessons with first-hand knowledge and real-world application.
Peter Massey began his career in 1983 as a police officer with the Hamden, Connecticut Department of Police Services. Initially assigned to the Patrol Division, he rose to the rank of Detective within the Detective and Identification Divisions where he earned four Letters of Recognition, eight Certificates of Commendation and two Unit Citations. His work included the investigation of various crime scenes from thefts and robberies, assaults, suspicious deaths and homicides, as well as other major crime scenes. After completing over twenty years of service, Peter retired to become the Training Coordinator for the National Crime Scene Training and Technology Center at the Henry C. Lee Institute of Forensic Science. During his tenure as Training Coordinator, he was responsible for offering hundreds of advanced training courses to the law enforcement community. These courses included; Basic, Intermediate, and Advanced Crime Scene; Shooting Reconstruction; Blood Patterns Analysis; and Recovery of Human Remains.
A member of several professional organizations, he has been a consultant for and appeared on the “On the Case with Paula Zahn” television show. He has traveled to the Bahamas, Mexico, and extensively throughout the United States to various Police Departments to train their patrolmen, detectives and investigators in the proper techniques used as first responders and crime scene investigators. Other specialty topics include shooting reconstruction, blood spatter pattern analysis, trace evidence, and finger printing.
At UNH, Peter has taught several investigation courses in the Criminal Justice Department and is currently a Lecturer for the Forensic Science Department, teaching Crime Scene Investigation, Advanced Crime Scene Investigation, and Introduction to Forensic Science.
Peter received his MSc degree from the University of New Haven in Forensic Science -Criminalistics and is currently pursuing his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice. His dissertation will focus on crime scene training.
Peter has been qualified in court and is actively engaged in both criminal and civil cases throughout the United States as an expert witness in the area of crime scene reconstruction, crime scene investigation, and fingerprint comparison.
Peter is currently the project manager on a NIJ grant entitled "The Impact of Forensic Evidence on Arrest and Prosecution."
He has also been a co-author on a chapter on handling of forensic botany evidence in Forensic Ecology Handbook: From Crime Scene to Court. Peter’s interests include examining the value of standardization of crime scene investigation training and methods and new technological advancements in crime scene investigation.
Affiliations and Expertise
Ratings and Reviews
Latest reviews
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DavidPimentel Fri Mar 01 2019
The Crime Scene 2nd edition
Very interesting graphic and documented guide on how to follow procedures in order to well document a crime scene and the tools required
Rupesh Sun Feb 03 2019
Very helpful for understanding Crime Scene
This book is very helpful for Scene of Crime with clear photography. It's writing materials is also very good.