Crime scene investigation : crack the case with real-life experts /
Joseph T. Dominick ... [et al.] ; introduction by Cyril H. Wecht.
- 192 páginas : ilustraciones (algunas a color) ; 23 cm.
Includes index.
_ Crime scene -- First-responders, the death call, death investigators, the investigation -- On-scene procedures, time of death, removing the body -- Enter the specialized forensics experts, morgue procedures -- Charles Manson -- Frederick and Rosemary West -- Day in the life of a death investigator: Joseph T. Dominick -- Day in the life of a forensic photographer -- Inquiry team -- Homocide detectives, forensic photographers, the forensic pathologist -- Malcom Fairley -- Byron de la Beckwith -- Robert Hansen -- Tracie Andrews -- Day in the life of a criminal intelligence analyst: Nicola Aranyi -- Forensic eam -- Fingerprints examiner, DNA examiner, firearms examiner, hair/fiber examiner, bloodstain examiner, document examiner, other types of criminalists -- Richard Ramirez -- Wayne Williams -- Stephen Bradley -- Ch. 1: The Case files: A A ch. 2: The The Case studies: A ch. 3: The Case Files: A _ Day in the life of a forensic odontologist: Dr. Michael N. Sobel -- Day in the life of a forensic toxicologist: Dr. Frederick W. Fochtman -- Autopsy -- Types of autopsy, the complete postmortem examination, forensic toxicology, collecting physical evidence from the body, the stages of death, the death certificate -- Dr. Harold Shipman -- James S. Vlassakis et al. -- Ted Bundy -- Day in the life of a forensic epidemiologist: Dr. Steven A. Koehler -- Day in the life of a forensic pathologist: Dr. Shaun Ladham -- Weapons of the killer -- Death by shooting, stab wounds, blunt force trauma and asphyxiation, poisoning -- Joann Curley -- Day in the life of a DNA criminalist: Thomas Meyers -- Day in the life of a forensic knot analyst: John J. Van Tassel -- Day in the life of a forensic barefoot morphologist: Robert B. Kennedy -- Psychology of crime -- A ch. 4: The Case files: A A ch. 5: Case files: A A A ch. 6: _ George Russell -- Jean Harris -- O. J. Simpson -- Day in the life of a criminal lawyer: Todd Edelman. A _ Primary, secondary and tertiary motive, conscious vs. unconscious motive, motive and gain, predatory motives, reactive motives, motiveless crimes, psychosis and motive, resolving questions of motive, criminal profiling -- George Metesky -- Paul Bernardo and Karla Homolka -- Arthur and Jackie Seale -- Day in the life of a criminal profiler: Dean A. Wideman -- Day in the life of a forensic psychologist: Dr. Katherine Ramsland -- Day in the life of a geographic profiler: Dr. Kim Rossmo -- Arrest -- Pre-arrest procedures, was a crime committed?, establishing probable cause, the intervioew and interrogation of suspects, filing the criminal complaint and charging the suspect , the role of the media -- Pre-trial procedures, the criminal trial, conduct of the trial, proof beyond a reasonable doubt, forensic scientific expert witnesses, medical vs. legal concepts of proof -- Timothy Spencer -- Case files: A A A ch. 7: The ch. 8: The Case files: