Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction - Softcover

Robert R. Ogle Jr.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0131119095 ISBN 13: 9780131119093

Publisher: Pearson Education, 2003

Synopsis

This book provides clear guidelines for superior crime scene investigation. The topics covered include documentation protocols, fundamental collection and preservation techniques, and laboratory analytical strategies. For crime scene investigators, crime scene reconstruction experts, detectives, and instructors of crime scene investigation.

About this title

From the Back Cover

Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction is a comprehensive textbook for courses offered in crime scene investigation and reconstruction. It is suited for students enrolled in all levels of law enforcement training. The textbook is a necessary supplement to courses in criminal investigation, criminalistics, and a wide range of other forensic science courses. Law enforcement agencies will also find this book to be a valuable reference manual. The reader is introduced to crime scene reconstruction, which is one of the primary goals of crime scene investigation, and an important tool in criminal investigations and prosecutions. Actual cases are presented throughout the text, which illustrate how the collection of physical evidence is so valuable in helping to solve crimes and eventually bringing the offenders to justice.

The following features of this book are of exceptional interest:

• Introduction to the crucial concepts of physical evidence, as they apply to its collection and its forensic laboratory examination and interpretation by the forensic scientist
• Comprehensive procedures methodologies for crime scene searches, photography, sketching, and collection of all major physical evidence categories
• Chapters on the primary types of physical evidence, including their laboratory examinations and interpretation
• Extensive chapter on sexual assault investigations, including physical evidence collected from the crime scene, the victim, and from the suspect
• Comprehensive chapter on homicide scene investigations, including the procedures essential to the forensic autopsy
• Crime scene reconstruction chapter, incorporating the various types of physical evidence used in reconstructions

About the Author

Robert Ogle attended the University of California in Berkeley, California, earning a Bachelor's degree in Letters and Science, with a major in Zoology. He attended several California State Universities as a graduate student in Biology and in Criminology. Mr. Ogle is the author of Crime Scene Investigation and Physical Evidence Manual (a widely accepted text in crime scene investigation); 0. J. Simpson: Not Guilty by Reason of Inanity; and (with coauthor Michelle J. Fox) Atlas of Human Hair Microscopic Characteristics. He was a Criminalist with the Contra Costa County, California, Sheriff-Coroner and was a Criminalist and Managing Criminalist with the California Department of Justice before entering private practice as a forensic consultant. Also, he has served as a forensic consultant for defense counsel in a number of homicide cases, including the People v. Randy Kraft (the largest serial murder case tried in the United States). He was a guest instructor in crime scene investigation courses in California Community Colleges and Law Enforcement Training Centers. Mr. Ogle has given many papers to forensic meetings and has published many articles in forensic journals and law enforcement publications. Currently retired from active teaching and consulting, he restricts his professional activities to writing in the field of forensic science.

Edition details

• Publisher: Pearson Education
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0131119095
• ISBN 13: 9780131119093
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 333