Forensic Science category: 441 books
by Tamworth Grice
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2012
As Dexter and CSI fans and most other people know, a crime scene may involve several of the following:
--blood droplets of various shapes and sizes
--blood sprays, spurts, and splashes
--blood flows, pools, and transfers
--dried blood
--projected blood
--cast-off blood
Blood spatter analysis...
The UN's Lone Ranger
Combating International Wildlife Crime
Language: English
Release Date: February 10, 2016
Illegal trade in wildlife is now recognized as one of the most significant criminal activities in the world, bringing billions of dollars in illicit profits to organized crime groups and networks, which are acknowledged to control much of this trafficking. Until 2011, John M. Sellar was the most senior...
A Street Survival Guide for Public Safety Officers
The Cop Doc's Strategies for Surviving Trauma, Loss, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
An expansion of Dr. Rudofossi's theory of Police and Public Safety Complex Trauma, this text integrates other models of trauma and loss into a one-of-a-kind intervention model. It offers insider perspectives from police psychologists, police managers, and clinicians describing what police personnel...
by Jon Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
An introduction to the concepts involved in the field of Criminalistics from the professional and scientific disciplines dedicated to the recognition, collection, identification, and individualization of physical evidence and the application of the natural sciences to the matters of the law will be...
Crime Scene Photography
Introduction To
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2015
This text covers the role of a photographer in a crime scene beginning with the history of photography and fundamental concepts of general camera use. This text covers photography concepts and practical applications to vehicular accidents, vehicle examinations, and crimes against property. Also covers...
Policing American Indians
A Unique Chapter in American Jurisprudence
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Bias, prejudice, and corruption riddle the history of US jurisprudence. Policing American Indians: A Unique Chapter in American Jurisprudence explores these injustices, specifically the treatment of American Indians. A mix of academic research as well as field experience, this book draws on author...
Global Community Policing
Problems and Challenges
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2012
In nations all over the world, community policing has been found extremely beneficial in improving public confidence in the police. Community-oriented policing and police-citizen cooperation is now the accepted framework for all progressive police departments. Drawn from the proceedings at the 2010...
North American Border Conflicts
Race, Politics, and Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2017
North American Border Conflicts: Race, Politics, and Ethics adds to the current discussion on class, race, ethnic, and sectarian divides, not only within the United States but throughout the Americas in general. The book explores the phenomenon of border challenges throughout the world, particularly...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In Brazil, where crime is closely associated with social inequality and failure of the criminal justice system, the police are considered by most to be corrupt, inefficient, and violent, especially when occupying poor areas, and they lack the widespread legitimacy enjoyed by police forces in many...
U.S. Counterterrorism
From Nixon to Trump – Key Challenges, Issues, and Responses
Language: English
Release Date: November 28, 2017
*"Writing with years of experience in government, Ambassador Edward Marks and Michael Kraft have produced a splendid history of America’s long campaign against terrorism. The book analyzes the recent changes in technology and tactics that have profoundly altered today’s terrorist challenge…to...
The Crime Numbers Game
Management by Manipulation
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2012
In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat. It consisted of computerized data, crime analysis, and advanced crime mapping coupled with middle management accountability and crime strategy meetings with high-ranking decision makers. While initially credited...
Ballistics
Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2018
With new chapters, homework problems, case studies, figures, and examples, Ballistics: Theory and Design of Guns and Ammunition, Third Edition encourages superior design and innovative applications in the field of ballistics. It examines the analytical and computational tools for predicting a weapon’s...
by Terry Manwaring
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2017
This text is designed not only to provide answers and the tools for law enforcement to better function in a public safety environment designed on the principles of fire department response plans. It will identify those compromises necessary to comply with, or add to, the National Incident Management...
Criminal Investigation
A Method for Reconstructing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2019
A classic in the field, Criminal Investigation: A Method for Reconstructing the Past, Eighth Edition, presents the fundamentals of criminal investigation and provides a sound method for reconstructing a crime based on three major sources of information: people, physical evidence, and records. By breaking...