Crime scene forensics : a scientific method approach / / by Robert C Shaler

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910460840203321
• Autore: Shaler Robert C
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Boca Raton, FL : , : CRC Press, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, , [2011]; ©2012
• ISBN: 0-429-25248-X; 1-4398-9773-5
• Edizione: [First edition.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (628 p.)
• Disciplina: 363.252
• Soggetti: Crime scenes; Crime scene searches; Criminal investigation; Forensic sciences; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters.
• Nota di contenuto: Front Cover; Contents; Acknowledgments; Author; Part I: The Philosophy and Essentials of Crime Scene Forensics; 1. Crime Scene Forensics: Philosophy, Practice, and Teaching; 2. The Scientific Method, Bias, and Reasoning; 3. Management Basics: The Investigative Glue; 4. The Fundamental Principles of Evidence; 5. Searching the Scene: Logic in Action; Part II: Forensic Archiving: Today's Eye for the Future; 6. The Principles of Forensic Photography; 7. The Paper Trail: Case Files, Worksheets, Notes, and Sketches; 8. Videography: The Forensic Documentary; Part III: Impression Evidence: Patterns of Identity9. Fingerprints I: The Intellectual Ingredients; 10. Fingerprints II : On-Scene Considerations; 11. Pattern Evidence I: Footwear Impressions; 12. Pattern Evidence II : Vehicle-Involved Scenes; Part IV: The Biological Crime Scene; 13. The Biological Crime Scene: It's Not Just about DNA; 14. Introduction to Bloodstain Pattern Analysis: The Basics; 15. Mass Fatality Events, Bioweapons, and Microbial Forensics; 16. Forensic Entomology: Bugs and the Postmortem Interval; Part V: Microscenes and Trace Evidence; ; 17. Microscenes: Hair and Fibers; 18. Glass: A Multitasking Class of Evidence19. Soil and Paint as Evidence; Part VI: Bang! It's a Shooting Incident Scene; 20. Introducing Shooting Scene Investigations; 21. Vehicles as Shooting Incident Crime Scenes; Part VII: Miscellaneous Considerations and Specialized Scenes; 22. Fire Scenes: A Scientific Method Investigation; 23. Quality at the Crime Scene; 24. Collection and Preservation of Evidence; 25. Scientific and Technical Working Groups; Glossary
• Sommario/riassunto: Bridging the gap between practical crime scene investigation and scientific theory, Crime Scene Forensics: A Scientific Method Approach maintains that crime scene investigations are intensely intellectual exercises that marry scientific and investigative processes. Success in this field requires experience, creative thinking, logic, and the correct application of the science and the scientific method.

Creole and dialect continua [[electronic resource] ] : standard acquisition processes in Belize and China (PRC) / / Genevieve Escure

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910457264703321
• Autore: Escure Geneviève
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Amsterdam ; ; Philadelphia, : J. Benjamins, c1997
• ISBN: 1-283-32781-3; 9786613327819; 90-272-7586-6
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (318 p.)
• Collana: Creole language library, , 0920-9026 ; ; v. 18
• Disciplina: 417/.22
• Soggetti: Creole dialects; Dialectology; Language acquisition; Sociolinguistics; Grammar, Comparative and general - Syntax; Pragmatics; English language - Social aspects - Belize; Chinese language - Social aspects; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: CREOLE AND DIALECT CONTINUA; Editorial page; Title page; Copyright page; Acknowledgments; Table of contents; Chapter 1. Introduction: Developmental Continua; Abstract; 1. General issues in linguistic change; 2. Aspects of acquisitional studies; 2.1 Universalist explanations of acquisition; 2.2 The acquisition of second dialects; 2.3 Social attitudes and language/dialect acquisition; 2.4 Linguistic bias; 3. The linguistic analysis of nonstandard dialects; 3.1 Labovian sociolinguistics; 3.2 Language in oral discourse and pragmatics; 3.3 Theoretical framework for oral discourse; 3.4 Units of analysis4. Creoles and noncreoles; 4.1 Two case studies; 4.2 Outline of chapters; Endnotes; Chapter 2. The Belizean Speech Community and the Use of English; Abstract; 1. Introduction to the history of Belize; 2. Ethnolinguistic composition and census data; 2.1 Amerindians; 2.2 Creoles (Europeans, Africans, Miskitos); 2.3 Garifuna (Black Caribs); 2.4 Mestizos; 2.5 Other groups; 3. The language situation; 3.1 Language policy and education; 3.2 English and the Creole continuum; 3.2.1 Putative origins of Creole; 3.2.2 Lectal range; 4. Focus on the Stann Creek district; 4.1 Placencia and Seine Bight4. 2 Samples of Belizean texts; 4.2.1 Text 1: Basilect; 4.2.2 Text 2: Mesolect in Creole/Carib interaction; 4.2.3 Text 3: Acrolect; 4.3 Garifuna; 4.3.1 Phonological features of Garifuna; 4.3.2 Morphological features of Garifuna; 4.3.3 Carib women's language; 5. Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 3. Creole Acrolects as Innovations; Abstract; 1. Radical creoles, postcreoles, and decreolization; 1.1 The radical creole hypothesis; 1.2 The postcreole hypothesis; 1.3 Problems with radical creoles and postcreoles; 1.4 A dynamic view of lectal development; 1.5 Decreolization as acquisition2. Acrolects and standard dialects: Social aspects; 2.1 Acrolect and standard defined; 2.2 The label ""English"" in Belize; 2.3 British and American values in Belize; 2.4 Range of linguistic choices and attitudes; 2.4.1 Language attitudes and gender; 2.4.2 Language attitudes and ethnicity; 2.4.3 Acrolects as psychosocial entities; 3. Acrolects and standards: Linguistic aspects; 3.1 Acrolectal texts; 3.1.1 Text 8: Local food (Peter, 40; Creole, Belize-City); 3.1.2 Text 9: Dugu (a Black Carib variant of voodoo) (Mark, 16; Garifuna, Punta-Gorda); 3.2 Linguistic strategies in acrolects3.3 Linguistic features; 3.3.1 Phonological features; 3.3.2 Morphological features; 3.3.3 Syntactic features; 3.3.4 Effects of basilectal influence in acrolects; 4. Conclusion; Endnotes; Chapter 4. The Interaction of Syntax and Pragmatics in Acrolects:Topic Marking; Abstract; 1. Syntax and discourse features; 1.1 The theoretical interpretation of topics; 1.2 Topic; 1.3 Topic and focus; 2. Types of topic strategies; 2.1 Topic fronting; 2.2 Topic repetition; 2.3 Topic presentation; 2.3.1 Cleft, pseudo-cleft, and existential structures; 2.3.2 Presentative particles
• Sommario/riassunto: Although there is a substantial amount of linguistic research on standard language acquisition, little attention has been given to the mechanisms underlying second dialect acquisition. Using a combination of function-based grammar and sociolinguistic methodology to analyze topic marking strategies, the unguided acquisition of a standard by speakers of nonstandard varieties is examined in two distinct linguistic and geographical situations: in a Caribbean creole situation (Belize), with special attention to the ; acquisition of acrolects by native speakers of basilects, and in a noncreole situati