Forensic Gait Analysis: Principles and Practice

ISBN-13: 9781138386846 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 218 str.

Ivan Birch; Michael Nirenberg; Wesley Vernon

Opis

Forensic Gait Analysis provides a systematic understanding of the relevant science that underpins gait analysis, how this science can be applied appropriately to its use in the forensic context, the development of standardised methodologies for analysis and comparison, and how to report the findings.

Recenzje

"With forensic gait analysis being a relatively new forensic science ... there has not yet been set to print a book so complete in its efforts to convey the whole process of Forensic Gait Analysis as Forensic Gait Analysis: Principles and Practice. This book finds the perfect balance in its explanation of what forensic gait analysis is and how it applies to the real world investigation, from the beginning of a criminal investigation right up to the court room and beyond. Overall, this book is well researched, written, and presented ... all would benefit from the information in these pages ... the best written book on forensic gait analysis I have read."

—Nicholas J. Harris, CSFS, Detective Constable, Peel Regional Police Service, Canada; Crime Scene Investigator with the Forensic Identification Bureau; Forensic Podiatrist, BSc Hons Podiatric Medicine. Review published in Interfaces, a publication of The Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, Issue No. 101, September 2020.

Spis treści

Foreword: Anya Hunt, Chief Executive Officer of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences Preface: Ivan Birch Contributors Chapter 1: Introduction Ivan Birch and WesleyVernon Chapter 2: The history of the use of gait analysis as evidence Michael Nirenberg Chapter 3: Fundamentals of human gait and gait analysis Ambreen Chohan, Jim Richards and David Levine Chapter 4: The legal context of forensic gait analysis Part 1: The legal context in North America Emma Cunliffe Part 2: The legal context in the United Kingdom Graham Jackson Chapter 5: The development of the forensic gait analysis quality assurance process in the UK Sarah Reel Chapter 6: Initial contact, preliminary assessment of footage and defining the task Ivan Birch Chapter 7: Analysing the questioned and reference footage Ivan Birch Chapter 8: Comparison of gait and evaluation Ivan Birch Chapter 9: Writing expert witness reports Part 1: General principles, requirements and pitfalls Roger Robson and Claire Gwinnett Part 2: Writing forensic gait analysis reports Ivan Birch Chapter 10: Presenting gait evidence in court Ivan Birch Chapter 11: Psychology of perceptual error in forensic practice Liam Satchell Chapter 12: Probative value of gait analysis Graham Jackson andIvan Birch Chapter 13: Case study 1 - Berry’s One Stop Store robbery Michael Nirenberg Case study 2 - arson of a business premises Maria Birch Case study 3 - two armed bank robberies Ivan Birch Appendix 1 Sheffield features of gait tool Index