Bloodstain patterns: identification, interpretation, and application

"Bloodstain Patterns: Identification, Interpretation and Application combines material from Blood Dynamics (2001) and Bloodstain Pattern Evidence (2007) with updated case work and scientific advances from medical and hard sciences. The text expands coverage of such areas as arterial damage pattern identification, staging of crime scenes, legal applications and problems from both sides of the bench, and extending teaching and training to those outside criminal justice. With violent offenders more aware of crime scene investigation techniques and attempting to frame others, the text expands outda"--OCLC.

FrontCover; Dedication; BLOODSTAINPATTERNS; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; ABOUT THE AUTHOR; List of Figures; SECTION I -INTRODUCTION; Chapter 1 -- Introduction; TO SOLVE A PROBLEM, YOU IDENTIFY IT; CHANGED HISTORY; TERMINOLOGY SHIFT; CORRECTING MISPERCEPTIONS; PREVIOUS CONFUSION CORRECTED; THE ECONOMICS OF BLOODSTAIN PATTERN TRAINING; Chapter 2 -- The Science of Bloodstain Pattern Evidence; REFERENCES; Chapter 3 -- Discussion on Terminology; ABSENCE TRANSFER; AREA OF CONVERGENCE; ARTERIAL DAMAGE STAINS; ARTERIAL FOUNTAIN; ARTERIAL GUSH; ARTERIAL RAIN; ARTERIAL SPURT; ARTERIES.

Back spatterblockage transfer; blood; blood into blood; blood spatter; bloodstain; blunt force impact; bullet capsular blast; calipers; castoff spatters; cessation castoffs; clot (coagulation); contamination; direction of travel; drip castoff; entrance wound spatter; exit wound spatter; gunshot wound; hemolyze; high velocity impact spatter (hvis); incident angle; inline beading; inside angle (incident angle or impact angle); investigative transfer (it); low velocity impact spatter (lvis); medium velocity impact spatter (mvis); mist spatter or misting; moving contact bloodstains; muzzle blast.

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