Crime Scene Staging Dynamics in Homicide Cases is the first book to look at this practice, providing a methodology of identifying, analyzing, synthesizing, and evaluating the evidence of each case by learning to marry the physical evidence to the behavioral evidence.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures
• Foreword
• Preface
• Author
• Contributor
• Section I: INTRODUCTION TO STAGING
• Preface
• 1 History of Crime Scene Staging
• 2 Introduction to Crime Scene Staging
• 3 Crime Scene Dynamics
• Section II: OFFENDERS AND VICTIMS
• 4 Offender Characteristics and Behaviors
• 5 Victimology
• 6 Purposes and Motives
• 7 Intimicide
• 8 Types of Staging
• Section III: VICTIM-CENTERED DEATH INVESTIGATION METHODOLOGY
• Preface
• 9 Crime Identification: Detecting Deception
• 10 Crime Analysis
• 11 Crime Synthesis and Evaluation
• 12 The Future
• VI. Appendices
• Appendix A: Research-Based Forensic Victimology
• Appendix B: Victim-Centered Death Investigation Methodology Outline
• Appendix C: Crime Synthesis Matrix
• Appendix D: Physical Evidence Inventory and Information Worksheet
• Appendix E: Crime Scene Photo Log Worksheet
• Appendix F: Wound Pattern Analysis Worksheet
• Appendix G: Statement Analysis Worksheet
• Appendix H: Prereconstruction Checklist