• Provides 500 full color photographs - the first bloodstain pattern book presenting dramatic full color images of bloodletting injuries, bloodstains and crime scenes.
• Contains appendices with scientific data that includes trigonometric tables and metric equivalents, as well as crime scene and laboratory check lists, and biohazard safety precautions
• Discloses court decisions relating to bloodstain pattern analysis and presumptive blood testing

Bloodstain evidence has become a deciding factor in the outcome of many of the world's most notorious criminal cases. As a result, substantiation of this crucial evidence is of vital importance to those on either side of the courtroom aisle. The challenge is to attain an authoritative reference that provides the latest information in a succinct and effective manner.

Principles of Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: Theory and Practice goes above and beyond this challenge. The author uses a multi-disciplinary approach throughout that illustrates scene and laboratory examinations in conjunction with forensic pathology, forensic serology, and chemical enhancement techniques.

Information highlighted includes an engrossing examination of bloodstained clothing and footwear, the essentials of bloodstain photography, fascinating data on the digital imaging of bloodstain patterns, and riveting information on bloodstain interpretation for crime scene reconstruction.