Bloodstain patterns identification, interpretation and application / Anita Y. Wonder with G. Michele Yezzo.
| Author/creator | Wonder, Anita Y. |
| Other author | Yezzo, Michele G. |
| Format | Electronic |
| Publication Info | Amsterdam ; Boston : Elsevier/AP, Academic Press is an imprint of Elsevier, [2015] |
| Description | xix, 327 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm |
| Supplemental Content | Full text available from eBook - Forensics, Security, and Criminal Justice 2015 [EBCFOR15] |
| Subjects |
| Contents | I. Introduction -- 1. Introduction -- The economics of bloodstain pattern training -- 2. The science of bloodstain pattern evidence -- 3. Discussion on terminology -- Absence transfer -- Area of convergence -- Arterial damage stains -- Arterial fountain -- Arterial gush -- Arterial rain -- Arterial spurt -- Arteries -- Back spatter -- Blockage transfer -- Blood -- Blood into blood -- Blood spatter -- Bloodstain -- Blunt force impact -- Bullet capsular blast -- Calipers -- Castoff spatters -- Cessation castoffs -- Clot (coagulation) -- Contamination -- Direction of travel -- Drip castoff -- Entrance wound spatter -- Exit wound spatter -- Gunshot wound -- Hemolyze -- High velocity impact spatter (HVIS) -- Incident angle -- Inline beading -- Inside angle (incident angle or impact angle) -- Investigative transfer (IT) -- Low velocity impact spatter (LVIS) -- Medium velocity impact spatter (MVIS) -- Mist spatter or misting -- Moving contact bloodstains -- Muzzle blast-- Origin -- Parent drop -- Passive -- Pattern -- Physiologically altered bloodstain (PABS) -- Plasma -- Pool (volume) -- Preblast -- Protractor -- Red blood cells -- Retraction (clot) -- Satellite spatter -- Secondary spatter -- Serum -- Serum stain -- Shadowing -- Simple direct transfer patterns -- Smear (smudge) -- Spatter -- Spine -- Splash -- Splatter -- String reconstruction -- Swipe moving transfer pattern -- Target -- Template transfers -- Transfer pattern -- Void -- volume (pool) -- Whole pattern -- Wipe moving transfer pattern -- II. Identification -- 4. Review of historical approaches to bloodstain pattern identification -- Identifying the whole pattern -- Directions of travel -- Alignments -- Distribution/density -- Further discussions regarding examples of spatter patterns -- 5. Differentiations between similar patterns -- Additions to guidelines for identification -- Various bloodstain patterns found on the floor -- Moving transfer patterns -- 6. How many pieces of evidence? -- Putting the sections together for a crime investigation -- III. Interpretation -- 7. Information for interpretation -- Interpretations based on common workshop experiments -- 8. Investigative leads : suggested questions and answers -- The major categories, subcategories, and a continuous list of questions for interpretation of bloodstain patter evidence -- How bloodstain pattern evidence may be used to answer the preceding questions -- 9. Staging -- Physiologically altered bloodstains -- Volume stains (pooling of blood) -- Case examples where staging should have been eliminated -- Clever staging? -- IV. Application -- 10. Expanding applications in bloodstain pattern evidence -- Interviews of individuals claiming knowledge of the evidence -- Investigations of vandalism -- Determination of suicide, accident, or homicide -- CSI general work-up for violent events -- Trial strategy for both prosecution and defense -- Openings for appeals -- Evidence for parole considerations -- Cold case and historical considerations -- Child abuse and animal cruelty -- Internal Affairs investigations into officer-involved shootings -- Incarcerated population interrogation -- How to apply bloodstain pattern analysis -- 11. Applications of bloodstain pattern evidence to crime scene investigation -- Applying workshops and lectures to case work-up -- The importance of the 3D approach -- Applications to review within a 3D context -- 12. Bloodstain pattern application in court -- History from the legal viewpoint -- Interactions between lawyers and bloodstain pattern analysis experts -- Importance of pretrial motions -- Application of expertise early in the case -- Questions for key witnesses in bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) cases -- V. Research for the future -- 13. Reinventing the wheel -- Identify and limit the specific problem or question to be understood and/or resolved with the project -- Conduct a literature search for applicable scientific foundations -- Construct an experimental design for the project -- Acquire and/or manufacture instrumentation and devices, and compile a formula for reagents as necessary -- Identify what and how records of the project results will be kept and distributed -- Conduct the project -- Review results, interpret information gleaned, and draw conclusions -- Suggest modifications for future projects to deal with unsuspected results and extend understanding -- 14. Research project examples -- Color used to determine age of bloodstains -- The investigation into the footprint of a blood drop -- CSF and blood project -- 15. Summation and review -- History -- Who is affected by discoveries in bloodstain pattern evidence? |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Access restriction | Available only to authorized users. |
| Technical details | Mode of access: World Wide Web |
| Genre/form | Electronic books. |
| LCCN | 2015458653 |
| ISBN | 9780124159303 |
| ISBN | 0124159303 |
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