Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction
(Fifth Edition)
©2026, 564 pages
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The fifth edition of the cutting-edge, comprehensive textbook on crime scene investigation.
Using a systematic approach, Crime Scene Investigation & Reconstruction outlines techniques for students and law enforcement professionals on how to answer the critical what, who, and when questions of crime scene investigations. With a focus on crime scene processing, the book includes the latest on database technologies, digital cameras, DNA analyses, and computer-aided crime scene reconstructions.
Across 17 chapters, readers receive a strong grounding in everything from crime scene search principles to investigating bones on a scene. Each chapter is chock-full of pedagogical resources such as Keywords, Learning Outcomes, Case Studies, Review Questions, and tons of photographs and diagrams.
Key Updates to This Edition:
Provides the latest on database technologies, digital cameras, DNA analysis, computer-aided crime scene reconstructions, and other cutting-edge tactics.
Contains a brand-new chapter on "Investigating Bones on a Scene" (Chapter 17).
Includes current terminology and standards from the Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) and the Academy Standards Board of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Using a systematic approach, Crime Scene Investigation & Reconstruction outlines techniques for students and law enforcement professionals on how to answer the critical what, who, and when questions of crime scene investigations. With a focus on crime scene processing, the book includes the latest on database technologies, digital cameras, DNA analyses, and computer-aided crime scene reconstructions.
Across 17 chapters, readers receive a strong grounding in everything from crime scene search principles to investigating bones on a scene. Each chapter is chock-full of pedagogical resources such as Keywords, Learning Outcomes, Case Studies, Review Questions, and tons of photographs and diagrams.
Key Updates to This Edition:
Sharon Plotkin has been involved in crime scene work for over 20 years and is a full-time faculty member at Miami Dade College. She obtained her Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in Psychology from Florida International University and her doctoral degree in Education from Northcentral University. She has handled thousands of cases ranging from burglaries to homicides and suspicious death cases.
The late Robert Ogle attended the University of California in Berkeley, California, in his undergraduate years and attended several California State Universities as a graduate student in Biology and in Criminology. He was a Criminalist with the Contra Costa County, California, Sheriff-Coroner, a Criminalist and Managing Criminalist with the California Department of Justice before entering private practice as a forensic consultant, and a guest instructor in crime scene investigation courses in California community colleges and police training centers.
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