Forensic Investigations Chapter Summary

This book inventories step by step procedures used in securing, processing and documenting a crime scene. Additionally, the author covers other areas of forensic investigation such as fingerprinting, ballistics, cybercrime, DNA, and body decomposition scenes. The author gives a step by step account of how crime scenes are managed from the first step: the first responder up to the closing and release of a crime scene. Malocco also discusses the public’s conception of how forensic investigations are performed in comparison to what they see on television. This misconception is addressed and how this fallacy can impact juries in criminal cases where DNA and forensic techniques and processing are a focal point to the verdict. The author holds