The Science Of Crime Scenes

The recent National Research Council's report on forensic science calls for more fundamental education and training in the science behind the discipline. Nowhere is this need greater than in crime scene investigations. Long seen as merely bagging and tagging, crime scene investigation and processing is now a complex process, involving numerous sciences and methods.

The Science of Crime Scenes addresses the science behind the scenes and demonstrates the latest methods and technologies in depth. The Science of Crime Scenes covers the philosophy of crime scenes as historical events, the personnel involved at a scene (including the media), the detection of criminal traces and their reconstruction, and special crime scenes, such as mass disasters and terroristic events.

Written by an international trio of authors with decades of crime scene experience, The Science of Crime Scenes is the next generation of crime scene textbooks. It offers a science-based approach to crime scene investigation. It includes in-depth coverage of disasters and mass murder, terror crime scenes, and CBRN (chemical, biological, radioactive and nuclear) - not covered in any other text.

It is written by an international trio of authors with decades of crime scene experience. It offers instructor website with lecture slides, test bank, outlines, definitions, and activities, and a student companion site with an image collection. Review: The Science of Crime Scenes is a good reference for the crime scene investigator.

It incorporates excellent tables, charts, and illustrations which can be a great aid when processing a scene.It does a good job in describing the total spectrum of factors which can impact crime scenes and provides the reader with the necessary knowledge and tools to successfully evaluate and process the scene of a crime. --Journal of Forensic Sciences, July 2013 The text provides in-depth detail of the science behind the scene and demonstrates the latest methods and technologies - as well as the philosophy and history behind crime scene work. --Evidence Technology Magazine, July-August 2013 .The Science of Crime Scenes is a good reference for the crime scene investigator.

It incorporates excellent tables, charts, and illustrations which can be a great aid when processing a scene. --Journal of Forensic Sciences, 2013 .The Science of Crime Scenes fits well within the framework of crime scene training and documents the nuances of the challenging tasks required of these specialized personnel.

This reviewer's recommendation is that forensic laboratories add The Science of Crime Scenes to their training literature, and allow analysts to garner invaluable insight from the highly experienced trio of authors. --Crime Scene, Volume 39, Issue 2, Spring 2013 A half century has not dimmed skeptics' suspicions about the death of Marilyn Monroe at age 36, but the intervening decades have seen technological leaps that could alter the investigation were it to occur today. 'The good news is we're very advanced from 50 years ago,' said Max Houck, a forensic consultant and co-author of 'The Science of Crime Scenes.' 'The bad news is, we're still trying to put it in context,' he said. --Associated Press article on the 50th anniversary of Marilyn Monroe's death carried on multiple publications and sites incuding CBSNews.com