Emergency services

Critical to the successful apprehension and prosecution of criminals, the job of collecting evidence at a crime scene requires knowledge, technical skills, patience, and perseverance.

In the mid-1990s, the NYPD created a performance management strategy known as Compstat.

Every day the media floods the airwaves with their often-contradictory version of the role and behavior of the police force.

As police work has become increasingly professionalized, classrooms have become a preferred environment for training.

Presenting the hard science increasingly required by courts to back up expert opinion in cases that hinge on impression evidence comparison, this book applies the methods of physics, chemistry, and engineering to analysis and interpretation of fingerprints, footwear and tire tread impressions, and bloodstains.

Change is an inevitable part of any correctional institution, as new trends and initiatives constantly bombard the system.

Rated Best of the Best in Police Exam Prep Books by BestReviews, September 2018This updated manual presents information, practice tests, and strategies for the different question types used by police departments throughout the country.

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Every day, police officers face challenges ranging from petty annoyances to the risk of death in the line of duty.

In modern industrial societies, the demand for policing services frequently exceeds the current and foreseeable availability of public policing resources.

Karch's Drug Abuse Handbook, Third Edition remains the quintessential compendium addressing the pharmacological, medical, and legal aspects of drugs and informing the forensic community of the latest scientific advances and emergent practices.

Advance Praise for Forensic Cardiovascular Medicine"e;Using his vast experience in the medical-legal theater, Dr.

Disaster management has become an increasingly global issue, and victim identification is receiving greater attention.

Community-oriented policing (COP) is the ideology and policy model espoused in the mission statements of nearly all policing forces throughout the world.

Most failure or accident investigations begin at the end of the story: after the explosion, after the fire has been extinguished, or after the collapse.

Research has shown that the majority of crimes are committed by persistent or serial offenders, with as little as seven percent of offenders accounting for approximately 60 percent of all crimes.

Frequently a substance found at a port of entry, waste site, laboratory triage facility, or even in a hazardous materials emergency will be labeled and purportedly identified.

In terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.

The most important part of a CSI's (crime scene investigator) job is accurate documentation of properly collected evidence.

Investigative and Forensic Interviewing: A Personality-Focused Approach looks at the personality styles most commonly encountered in the criminal justice system and demonstrates how to use this insight to plan and conduct a productive interview.

Medical and industrial imaging methods have come to be recognized as powerful tools for documentation and data collection in many nontraditional settings.

While many police officers undertake their work conforming to the highest ethical standards, the fact remains that unethical police conduct continues to be a recurring problem around the world.

Over the past 25 years, Harold and Darren Franck have investigated hundreds of accidents involving vehicles of almost every shape, size, and type imaginable.

Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects is the first text that deals with the scientific aspects of necrophilia from a multidisciplinary point of view.

Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to evolve as a national and global priority issue.

The benchmark first edition of Forensic Radiology, published in 1998, was a milestone in the forensic community - a bestseller throughout the world and a standard reference for practitioners and educators alike.

Police leaders possess a plethora of rich experiences and practical and theoretical knowledge that provides fascinating insights into the current state of policing around the world.

In order to gain accreditation, every laboratory must have a superior quality assurance program.

Pediatric homicide investigations are clouded by a number of factors, not the least of which is a lack of straightforward resources.

In its short but active history, the use of DNA typing has revolutionized criminal investigations.

After 9/11, forensic epidemiology emerged as a leading investigative tool, partnering public health officers with law enforcement like never before.

When a bone of unknown origin is found at a location, forensic implications arise immediately.

A forensic investigation requires a team of specialists from many different scientific fields of study along with legal and law enforcement specialists.

The forensic nurse has a powerful role in medical-legal investigations.

Police organizations across the globe are experiencing major changes.

A burial environment is a complex and dynamic system.

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

Forensic Issues in Alcohol Testing analyzes the acute and chronic effects of alcohol intoxication and a variety of methods with which to measure alcohol concentration in blood, urine, and breath testing.

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

An organization's employees are often more intimate with its computer system than anyone else.

Treating nuclear, biological, and chemical agent exposures presents a unique set of challenges.

Death Investigation: Systems and Procedures is the first book dedicated to the topic of death investigation from a legal standpoint as well as the administrative and operational procedures that pertain to the medical examiner and the coroner system in the United States.

The science of fingerprint identification isn't always cut and dry.

Avoid Major Investigative TrapsWhat causes competent and dedicated investigators to make avoidable mistakes, jeopardizing the successful resolution of their cases?

Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease.

Postmortem Toxicology of Abused Drugs considers the role of toxicology in death investigation and gives practical insights on conducting toxicology tests and completing the toxicology report.

Beginning with a definition and explanation of scheduling of controlled substances, Pathology, Toxicogenetics, and Criminalistics of Drug Abuse covers investigative methods for all illegal drugs and several legitimate pharmaceuticals that are used illicitly, including steroids.