Crime Scene Investigation and Reconstruction is the successor to the first and second editions of Crime Scene Investigation and Physical Evidence Manual by this author. As stated in Crime Scene Investigation and Physical Evidence Manual, the ultimate goal of crime scene investigation is to reconstruct the events of the crime in order to answer the questions What happened? Who was responsible for each action?, and What was the sequence of actions? The answers to these questions and others related to the crime may assist in establishing whether or not a crime occurred and who was (were) the perpetrators) of the crime. Because of the importance of reconstruction to crime scene investigation, the title of this text has been changed to reflect the importance of this topic, and the text has been expanded to include a chapter on crime scene reconstruction to illustrate the effectiveness of reconstruction in helping both to protect the innocent and to aid in the apprehension and prosecution of perpetrators of crime.

A number of photographs have been added to the text to illustrate various aspects of the collection and laboratory examination of physical evidence. Many features of crime scene reconstruction are illustrated with new photographs in order to provide the investigator with an appreciation of the advantage of having a reconstruction of the crime effected by the reconstruction expert or team.

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