Böcker av Nicholas Petraco

In this volume, noted forensic expert Nicholas Petraco helps move toolmark examination from an art to a science. The book first provides an anthology of tried and true methods, procedures, and traditional techniques used by practitioners of this discipline for over a century. It contains rationales and methodologies for casework, discusses new m

Illustrates with photographs, diagrams, and short lists of instructions each step of the crime scene processing function. This book covers steps necessary to recognize, document, process, collect, package, preserve, and safeguard potential evidence.

Impression evidence can be broadly defined as the transfer of an object's physical morphology in the form of an imprint onto the surface of softer substance. Forensic scientists encounter various forms of impression evidence on a routine basis. This book focuses on marks made by tools.