This book provides the basic information that investigators and other forensics professionals need to make decisions regarding forensic evidence. It is a field manual for forensic investigators, detectives, and defense attorneys, and prosecutors.

This book addresses the basic practices for recognizing, documenting, collecting, and interpreting forensic evidence. It covers the basics of investigative protocol, personal safety, contamination control, evidence collection techniques, digital imaging, and computer enhancement. Although many of these techniques are expensive, it still is necessary to understand them in the event that you ever need them.

The book’s main purpose to expand forensic scientists and investigators understanding of forensic evidence, the limits of evidence, and to offer new ways to think about forensic evidence in relation to the total event. The book discusses some simple investigative paradigms such as semiotics and systems analysis that are intended to help maximize your potential for discovering and interpreting evidence. Most importantly, it presents the basic knowledge necessary for understanding the issues of uncertainty when documenting and interpreting forensic evidence. (Price $45)