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Training Books

Elsevier Security e-Catalog

View Elsevier’s latest Security e-catalog and take advantage of features such as: quick search, add your own notes, email the catalog, and more!  More>> .

Biometric Technologies and Verification Systems

Biometric security solutions offer some unique advantages for identifying and verifying/authenticating human beings over more traditional security methods. This book will serve to identify the various security applications biometrics can play a highly secure and specific role in.  More>>

Building a Digital Forensic Laboratory

The need to professionally and successfully conduct computer forensic investigations of incidents and crimes has never been greater. This book meets that need: a clearly written, non-technical book on the topic of computer forensics with emphasis on the establishment and management of a computer forensics laboratory and its subsequent support to successfully conducting computer-related crime investigations.  More>>

Crime Reconstruction

Designed for forensic science students, Crime Reconstruction is a guide to the interpretation of physical evidence. This collaborative effort by internationally known and respected forensic science practitioners with generations of case experience covers arson reconstruction, trace evidence interpretation, advanced bloodstain interpretation, and reconstructionist ethics. Additional chapters cover the subjects of shooting incident reconstruction, interpreting digital evidence, stager crime scenes, and examiner bias.  More>>

Criminal Investigation, 2nd Edition Law and Practice

This textbook provides students and law enforcement officers with the fundamentals of the criminal investigation process, from arrival on the scene to trial procedures. Written in a clear and simple style, Criminal Investigation: Law and Practice surpasses traditional texts by presenting a unique combination of legal, technical, and procedural aspects of the criminal investigation. The hands-on approach taken by the author helps to increase the learning experience. It merges two areas that are crucial to the successful completion of an investigation: the law, both criminal and procedural, and criminal investigative techniques. More>>

Forensic Investigation of Stolen-Recovered and Other Crime-Related Vehicles

Forensic Investigation of Stolen-Recovered and Other Crime-Related Vehicles is the ultimate reference guide for any student interested in becoming an auto theft investigator, crime scene technician, criminalist, police investigator, criminologist, or insurance adjuster. An impressive collection of expert contributors covers a wide variety of subjects, including chapters on vehicle identification, examination of burned vehicles, vehicles recovered from under water, vehicles involved in terrorism, vehicle tracking, alarms, anti-theft systems, steering columns, and ignition locks.  More>>

Fundamentals of Forensic Science

This book offers the most complete look at the core topics any student of forensic science must learn. It represents a realistic view of the field including areas that fall outside the typical definition of "criminalistics." These areas include pathology, entomology, anthropology, and other areas of scientific study unique to forensic textbooks. Organized by the timeline of a real case, the text begins with an introduction and history of forensic science. It then covers the methods of analysis used in most forensic examinations, addressing the biological, chemical and physical elements relevant to the field, and concluding with an examination of how forensic science intersects with law.  More>>

Introduction to Homeland Security

Bullock and Haddow have set the standard for homeland security textbooks, and they follow up their top-selling second edition with this substantially improved third edition. Faculty, students, and professional practitioners value the decades of experience that the authors bring to their analysis, and their passionate argument for an all-hazards approach to enhancing America's safety is now presented still more cogently. The pedagogical elements are expanded with more provocative discussion questions, clearly stated objectives, and new illustrations and examples drawn from recent events.  More>>  

Investigative Data Mining for Security and Criminal Detection

This groundbreaking book reviews the latest data mining technologies including intelligent agents, link analysis, text mining, decision trees, self-organizing maps, machine learning, and neural networks. Using clear, understandable language, it explains the application of these technologies in such areas as computer and network security, fraud prevention, law enforcement, and national defense. International case studies throughout the book further illustrate how these technologies can be used to aid in crime prevention.  More>>

Shooting Incident Reconstruction

This book is generated from the authors numerous years of conducting courses and seminars on the subject of shooting incident reconstruction. It addresses 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.  More>>

Other Police & Law Enforcement Books

True Blue: To Protect and Serve

Read Randy Sutton’s newest collection of law enforcement stories and get to know the hearts that beat behind the badge. Each week, LawOfficer.com will offer a new chapter of this book, written by and for the cops that lived to tell the tales.

State Laws

State Laws

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