Forensic Science

This text covers many aspects of crime scene investigation, taking the reader from the first response on the crime scene to documenting crime scene evidence and preparing evidence for courtroom presentation.

Provides best practices policies for forensic science entities and their employees to maintain chain of custody and evidence integrity throughout the course of evidence collection, storage, preservation, and processing.

Provides a discussion of the principles and practice of evidence interpretation and evaluation by using real cases.

This book shows how the crime scene examination is as crucial to the creation of forensic evidence as laboratory analyses, the plaintiff, witness, and suspect statements elicited by police investigators, and the interpretations that prosecutors and defense lawyers bring to the evidence.

This book provides guidance to all professionals working with children who present with injuries, neglect, illness falsification and other forms of child abuse. The author's clinical experience is shared to assist the reader in diagnosing the cause of injury and other presentations.

This book is an accessible introduction to firearms and ballistics evidence and how this is analysed and presented as evidence in a court of law.