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The
Premier Text on Shooting Incident Reconstruction

By
Lucien Haag, Former Criminalist and Technical Director, Phoenix Crime
Laboratory, President, Forensic Science Services, Inc., Carefree, AZ,
USA
Description
Forensic scientists, law enforcement, and crime scene investigators
are often tasked with reconstruction of events based on crime scene
evidence, and the subsequent analysis of that evidence. The use and
misuse of firearms to perpetrate crimes from theft to murder necessitates
numerous invitations to reconstruct shooting incidents. The discharge
of firearms and the behavior of projectiles create many forms of physical
evidence that, through proper testing and interpretation by a skilled
forensic scientist, can establish what did and what did not occur. This
book is generated from the authors numerous years of conducting courses
and seminars on the subject of shooting incident reconstruction. It
seeks to thoroughly address matters from simple to complex in providing
the reader an explanation of the factors surrounding ballistics, trajectory,
and shooting scenes. The ultimate objectives of this unique book are
to assist investigators, crime scene analysts, pathologists, ballistics
experts, and lawyers to understand the terminology, science, and factors
involved in reconstructing shooting incident events to solve forensic
cases. The book will cover the full range of related topics including
the range from which a firearm was discharged, the sequence of shots
in a multiple discharge shooting incident, the position of a firearm
at the moment of discharge, the position of a victim at the moment of
impact, the probable flight path of a projectile, the manner by which
a firearm was discharged and much more.
Audience
The audience would include practicing forensic scientists, firearm and
toolmark examiners, ballistics experts, crime scene personnel, police
departments, forensic consultants, attorneys and judges, Medical Examiners
(coroners), and forensic pathologists.