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• Preface-- Introduction-- Electronic Devices: Types, Description, and Potential Evidence-- Investigative Tools and Equipment-- Securing and Evaluating the Scene-- Documenting the Scene-- Evidence Collection-- Packaging, Transportation, and Storage of Digital Evidence-- Electronic Crime and Digital Evidence-- Glossary-- Index.
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This book is intended to assist State and local law enforcement and other first responders who may be responsible for preserving an electronic crime scene and for recognising, collecting, and safeguarding digital evidence. It is not all inclusive but addresses situations encountered with electronic crime scenes and digital evidence. All crime scenes are unique and the judgement of the first responder, agency protocols, and prevailing technology should all be considered when implementing the information in this guide. First responders to electronic crime scenes should adjust their practices as circumstances -- including level of experience, conditions, and available equipment -- warrant. The circumstances of individual crime scenes and Federal, State, and local laws may dictate actions or a particular order of actions other than those described in this guide. First responders should be familiar with all the information in this guide and perform their duties and responsibilities as circumstances dictate. This is an edited and excerpted edition of a U.S. Dept. of Justice publication.
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• Introduction
• Electronic devices : types, description, and potential evidence
• Securing and evaluating the scene
• Documenting the scene --Evidence collection
• Packaging and transporting digital evidence
• Electronic crime and digital evidence considerations by crime category
• Information to document to assist the forensic examination.

• Introduction
• Electronic devices: types, description, and potential evidence
• Securing and evaluating the scene
• Documenting the scene --Evidence collection
• Packaging and transporting digital evidence
• Electronic crime and digital evidence considerations by crime category
• Information to document to assist the forensic examination.

• Forensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown cases
• A question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of death
• The sudden infant death debate : how many babies are murdered?
• Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation?
• Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide?
• Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise
• Fingerprints don't lie : except in Scotland
• Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis
• Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints?
• Earmark identification : emerging science or bad evidence?
• Expert vs. expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case
• The Ramsey case : act two
• Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science
• DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people
• Bullet identification : FBI style
• The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee.

Television shows like CSI, Forensic Files, and The New Detectives make it look so easy. A crime-scene photographer snaps photographs, a fingerprint technician examines a gun, uniformed officers seal off a house while detectives gather hair and blood samples, placing them carefully into separate evidence containers. In a crime laboratory, a suspect's hands are meticulously examined for gunshot residue. An autopsy is performed in order to determine range and angle of the gunshot and time-of-death evidence. Dozens of tests and analyses are performed and cross-referenced. A conviction is made. Another crime is solved. The credits roll.The American public has become captivated by success stories like this one with their satisfyingly definitive conclusions, all made possible because of the wonders of forensic science. Unfortunately, however, popular television dramas do not represent the way most homicide cases in the United States are actually handled. Crime scenes are not always protected from contamination; physical evidence is often packaged improperly, lost, or left unaccounted for; forensic experts are not always consulted; and mistakes and omissions on the autopsy table frequently cut investigations short or send detectives down the wrong investigative path.In ""Forensics Under Fire"", Jim Fisher makes a compelling case that these and other problems in the practice of forensic science allow offenders to escape justice and can also lead to the imprisonment of innocent people. Bringing together examples from a host of high-profile criminal cases and familiar figures, such as the JonBenet Ramsey case and Dr. Henry Lee who presented physical evidence in the O. J. Simpson trial, along with many lesser known but fascinating stories, Fisher presents daunting evidence that forensic science has a long way to go before it lives up to its potential and the public's expectations.
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• Forensic pathologists from hell : bungled autopsies, bad calls, and blown cases
• A question of credibility : bad reputations and the politics of death
• The sudden infant death debate Dr. Roy Meadow, Munchausen syndrome by proxy and Meadow's law
• Infants who can't breathe : illness or suffocation?
• Swollen brains and broken bones : disease or infanticide?
• Fingerprint identification : trouble in paradise
• Fingerprints never lie : except in Scotland
• Shoe print identification and foot morphology : the lay witness and the Cinderella analysis
• Bite mark identification : do teeth leave prints?
• Ear-mark identification : emerging science or bad evidence?
• Expert versus expert : the handwriting wars in the Ramsey case
• John Mark Karr : DNA Trumps the graphologists in the Ramsey case
• Hair and fiber identification : the inexact science
• DNA analysis : backlogs, sloppy work, and unqualified people
• Bullet identification : FBI style overselling the science
• The celebrity expert : Dr. Henry Lee.

Television shows like CSI, Forensic Files, and The New Detectives make it look so easy. A crime-scene photographer snaps photographs, a fingerprint technician examines a gun, uniformed officers seal off a house while detectives gather hair and blood samples, placing them carefully into separate evidence containers. In a crime laboratory, a suspect's hands are meticulously examined for gunshot residue. An autopsy is performed in order to determine range and angle of the gunshot and time-of-death evidence. Dozens of tests and analyses are performed and cross-referenced. A conviction is made. Another crime is solved. The credits roll.The American public has become captivated by success stories like this one with their satisfyingly definitive conclusions, all made possible because of the wonders of forensic science. Unfortunately, however, popular television dramas do not represent the way most homicide cases in the United States are actually handled. Crime scenes are not always protected from contamination; physical evidence is often packaged improperly, lost, or left unaccounted for; forensic experts are not always consulted; and mistakes and omissions on the autopsy table frequently cut investigations short or send detectives down the wrong investigative path.In ""Forensics Under Fire"", Jim Fisher makes a compelling case that these and other problems in the practice of forensic science allow offenders to escape justice and can also lead to the imprisonment of innocent people. Bringing together examples from a host of high-profile criminal cases and familiar figures, such as the JonBenet Ramsey case and Dr. Henry Lee who presented physical evidence in the O. J. Simpson trial, along with many lesser known but fascinating stories, Fisher presents daunting evidence that forensic science has a long way to go before it lives up to its potential and the public's expectations.
(source: Nielsen Book Data)