Footwear Impression Evidence: Detection, Recovery and Examination, SECOND EDITION

This book is the most authoritative source on recovering and identifying footwear impressions from crime scenes, with updated and new information on recovery procedures, materials, footwear manufacturing, sizing, and impression techniques. It includes three new chapters on barefoot evidence, cases where footwear impression evidence was crucial, and the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil cases.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 528 pages
Publication date: 31 March 2021
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Reviewed and recognized as the most authoritative source in the field, Footwear Impression Evidence: Detection, Recovery and Examination, Second Edition describes the methods used worldwide to recover and identify footwear impressions from the scene of a crime. In this new edition, everything, including the original twelve chapters, bibliography, appendix, etc., has been clarified, updated, and expanded. This edition includes updated and new information on recovery procedures and materials such as lifting, photography, and casting; chemical enhancement; updated information about footwear manufacturing; footwear sizing; and known impression techniques and materials. WHAT'S NEW IN THE SECOND EDITION: In addition to updating and expanding the twelve original chapters, Footwear Impression Evidence: Detection, Recovery, and Examination, Second Edition adds three new chapters: one chapter on barefoot evidence, which concerns impressions made by the naked or sock-clad foot or those which remain in abandoned or discarded footwear; another new chapter on several cases in which the footwear impression evidence was of primary importance in bringing about a conviction or confession; and finally, a new chapter on the footwear impression evidence in the O.J. Simpson criminal and civil cases.

Weight: 962g
Dimension: 254 x 178 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367778224
Edition number: 2 New edition