Crime Scene Investigation - Tapa dura

This textbook is aimed at first year undergraduates taking a course in the ever increasingly popular area of forensic science. This text focuses on crime scene investigation, and also covers some of the related applications of forensics taken thereafter. It is aimed to be a step by step approach, covering the basic applications a Scene of Crime Officer would have to cover, butalso an explanation of the theories and procedures.

Ian K. Pepper is the Principal Lecturer in Policing at the University of Teesside, UK. Ian manages and teaches on a range of specialist learning and development programmes in partnership with a number of law enforcement and Criminal Justice organisations. He is a former Senior Lecturer in Crime Scene and Forensic Science, police crime scene investigator (CSI) and fingerprint officer. Ian has been an instructor and team leader at the National Training Centre for Scientific Support to Crime Investigation and has designed and delivered training to Crime Scene Investigators and Police Officers in the Far East, Middle East, Africa and across the UK. Ian has also presented papers at conferences in the UK, USA and Canada. He is a member of the International Association for Identification and the Fingerprint Society.