Forensic Science: Crime Scene Analysis: Volume 5 (Student Guides Simplified) - Softcover

Malocco, Mr David Elio

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1508934401 ISBN 13: 9781508934400

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2015

Synopsis

Welcome to the Second Edition of the best selling book Forensic Science Crime Scene Analysis. Little did we know in 2014 that this small book would become so popular and remain popular for over a year. We looked at ways at improving it and we have done so. The Second Edition has been revised, updated and greatly expanded. It is now more than twice the size of the original book with extra sections on forensic photography, blood spatter analysis, trace evidence, impressions, ballistics, bomb-making, explosives, toxicology, digital evidence, search warrants, forensic computer investigation, DNA testing and advances, Miranda rights, police interrogation techniques, and the law relating to the admissibility of confessions. There is also a much extended Glossary and complete new chapters on the Admissibility of Expert Evidence and Criminal Law Evidence. This is the perfect starter book for Forensic Science students an provides a solid introduction into the subject. Recommended for forensic science students, criminologists, law enforcement agents, criminal lawyers and basically anyone interested in crime.

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About the Author

David Elio Malocco was born in Dundalk, County Louth, Ireland. His father was born in Casalattico in Frosinone in Italy and his mother was born in Monaghan in Ireland. He was educated at the Christian Brothers School in Dundalk and his parents later sent him to St. Patrick’s College in Cavan where they hoped he would be ordained as a Roman Catholic priest. But he chose law and business instead. He received his Bachelor of Civil Law degree from University College Dublin and spent fifteen years as a criminal lawyer before taking a second degree at the Open University, Milton Keynes in England where he obtained a first class honors degree in Psychology majoring in Cognitive Development. In 1991 he realized a personal ambition and moved to New York where he studied film direction, production and writing for film at New York University. Since then he has written numerous screenplays in several genre and has written, produced and directed several shorts and three feature films, Virgin Cowboys, Magdalen and Jack Gambel: The Enigma. He later studied creative writing at Oxford University. He has written several books on true crime and forensic science. The books were motivated by dual diplomas he had taken. The first was in the Psychology of Criminal Profiling and the second in Forensic Science specializing in crime scene analysis.

Edition details

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2015
• ISBN 10: 1508934401
• ISBN 13: 9781508934400
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 214