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Death Investigator's Handbook : Expanded and Updated Edition by Louis N. Eliopulos (2003, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherPaladin Press
ISBN-101581604130
ISBN-139781581604139
eBay Product ID (ePID)30226888
Product Key Features
Edition2
Book TitleDeath Investigator's Handbook : Expanded and Updated Edition
Number of Pages976 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2003
TopicCriminology
IllustratorYes
GenreSocial Science
AuthorLouis N. Eliopulos
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Weight113.1 Oz
Item Length11 in
Item Width8.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2003-283289
Dewey Edition20
Dewey Decimal363.2/59523
Table Of ContentPART I: CRIME SCENES • 1 Chapter 1: Crime-Scene Investigation 3 Chapter 2: Dead-Body Examinations 15 Chapter 3: Crime-Scene Searches 25 Chapter 4: Crime-Scene Drawings 29 Chapter 5: Photographing a Death Scene 37 Chapter 6: Videotaping a Death Scene 41 Chapter 7: Evidence Collection 45 Chapter 8: Electronic Evidence 81 Chapter 9: Processing a Body Dump Site 87 Chapter 10: Buried-Body Cases 91 Chapter 11: Investigation of Decomposed Remains 101 Chapter 12: Time Frame of Death 109 Chapter 13: Blood-Spatter Interpretation 111 PART II:INVESTIGATIONS • 133 Chapter 14: The Canvass 135 Chapter 15: Interviewing 137 Chapter 16: Suspect Description 139 Chapter 17: Interrogation 143 Chapter 18: Coerced Confessions 151 Chapter 19: Homicide Investigations 157 Chapter 20: Altercation Homicides 177 Chapter 21: Contract Murders 183 Chapter 22: Drug-Related Homicides 189 Chapter 23: Robbery-Related Homicides 195 Chapter 24: Sex-Related Homicides 201 Chapter 25: Cold-Case Investigations: Solving Unresolved Homicides 219 Chapter 26: Suicide Investigation 245 Chapter 27: Psychological Autopsies 249 Chapter 28: Small Aircraft Crash 263 Chapter 29: Alcohol-Related Deaths 267 Chapter 30: Death by Asphyxia 271 Chapter 31: Bioterrorism 283 Chapter 32: Death by Blunt Trauma 289 Chapter 33: Deaths Caused by Carbon Monoxide 307 Chapter 34: Child-Related Deaths 311 Chapter 35: Delayed-Fatal Hospital Cases 327 Chapter 36: Death by Drowning 341 Chapter 37: Drug Death Investigations 349 Chapter 38: Death by Electrocution 355 Chapter 39: Deaths Caused by Explosions or Bombs 363 Chapter 40: Deaths Caused by Falls from Heights 371 Chapter 41: Fire-Death Investigations 377 Chapter 42: Firearm-Related Death 387 Chapter 43: Apparent Natural Death 399 Chapter 44: Deaths by Poisoning 409 Chapter 45: Police/Correctional Custody Deaths 423 Chapter 46: Scuba-Related Deaths 431 Chapter 47: Sharp-Force Injuries 439 Chapter 48: Railroad Death Involving a Pedestrian 457 Chapter 49: Traffic Fatality-Vehicle Versus Vehicle 459 Chapter 50: Traffic Fatality-Vehicle Versus Pedestrian 477 Chapter 51: Mass Disaster Investigation 487 Chapter 52: Victim Identification 499 Chapter 53: Unidentified Remains Protocol 505 Chapter 54:Forensic Art Identification 507 Chapter 55: Handling Next of Kin 513 Chapter 56: Media Management 517 Chapter 57: Investigative Resources for Conducting Location and Background Investigations 523 Chapter 58: The Internet Law Enforcement Sites 553 Chapter 59: Information Available Through Vital Statistics 625 Chapter 60: Death Penalty in the United States 639 Chapter 61: Prosecution 647 PART III: SCIENTIFIC SECTION • 651 Chapter 62: Medical Examiner and Coroner Systems 653 Chapter 63: Requesting a Pathologist at a Death Scene 669 Chapter 64: The Forensic Autopsy 671 Chapter 65: The Purpose of an Autopsy in an Apparent Homicide Case 675 Chapter 66: Autopsy References 677 Chapter 67: Forensic Odontology 681 Chapter 68: AFBO Bitemark Methodology Guidelines 697 Chapter 69: Forensic Anthropology 707 Chapter 70: Toxicology 713 Chapter 71: Drugs of Abuse 717 Chapter 72: Common Prescriptive Medications 733 Chapter 73: Fingerprints 767 Chapter 74: Firearms 819 Chapter 75: DNA 841 Chapter 76: Serology 861 Chapter 77: Trace Evidence and Other Crime Lab Evidence 865 Conversion Charts 903
SynopsisThis expanded and updated edition brings death investigation up-to-the-minute. It contains 50 percent more material than the original and reveals all the new scientific and technical developments in the field of death investigation, including the very latest on DNA, cold cases, bioterrorism, mass disaster sites, illuminating sources for revealing stains, profiling secrets and much, much more. Interest in forensic medicine has never been higher. Professionals are faced with the need to solve more cases in less time and with fewer resources, and through popular television shows, movies and true-crime and mystery books, the public has become fascinated with every aspect of homicide investigations on the scene and in the lab. If you want to know more about the art and science of crime-scene processing, forensic evaluations and investigative techniques, go to the source that professionals use to catch real killers: Death Investigator's Handbook.
LC Classification NumberHV8079.H6E45 2003
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