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Book SynopsisAs unrest over officer-involved shootings and deaths in custody takes center stage in conversations about policing and the criminal justice system, Guidelines for Investigating Officer-Involved Shootings, Arrest-Related Deaths, and Deaths in Custody addresses critical investigation components from an expert witness perspective, providing the insights necessary to ensure a complete investigation. Investigating a custodial death or an officer involved in a shooting presents unique and complex issues: estate, community, judicial, agency, involved officer, and public policy interests are all at stake. These types of deaths present various emerging medical, psychological, legal and liability, technical, and investigatory issues that must be addressed through a comprehensive investigation. This book is ideal for students in criminal investigation, death investigation, crime scene investigation, and special topic courses in custodial deaths and officer-involved shootings, as
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The issue of deaths in police custody has become an important issue in criminology over the last decade, and concern about officer involved shootings has re-emerged in recent years… [Guidelines for Investigating Deaths in Custody] addresses major important topics in the field. --Robert Kaminski, Associate Professor, University of South Carolina
I will purchase this book for my leadership programs and my command staff. The book will be a valuable resource, especially with case studies and checklists to support the main text. Case studies give the reader a vicarious experience that they will remember when facing similar circumstances. --Mark S. Dunston, Chief of Police, Ocean Springs P.D.
Table of ContentsPreface
1. Arrest-Related Deaths, Emerging Questions, and Competing Expectations in Investigations
Darrell L. Ross, Michael Brave, and Mark Kroll
2. Vital Statistics and Arrest-Related Deaths
Darrell L. Ross and Michael Brave
3. Legal and Liability Issues Surrounding the Use of Force
Darrell L. Ross
4. Stress, Perceptional Distortions, and Human Performance
Darrell L. Ross and Randall L. Murphy
5. Memory and Decision Making Under Stress
Alexis Artwohl
6. Officer-Involved Incident Investigation Guidelines
Darrell L. Ross and Mark S. Dunston
7. Positional and Restraint Asphyxia
Davut Savaser and Theodore C. Chan
8. Neck Holds
Michael Holman and Gary M. Vilke
9. Excited Delirium Syndrome (ExDS)
Christopher J. Coyne, Binh T. Ly, and Gary M. Vilke
10. Amphetamines, Cathinones (Bath Salts), and Cocaine
Stephen L. Thornton, Michael A. Darracq, and Binh T. Ly
11. Central Nervous System Depressants
Michael A. Darracq, Stephen L. Thornton, and Binh T. Ly
12. Less Lethal Weapons, Not Including TASER
Christian Sloane and Gary M. Vilke
13. TASER—Conducted Electrical Weapons
Mark W. Kroll and Michael A. Brave
14. Custodial Deaths in Detention
Darrell L. Ross
15. Conducting the Investigative Interview
R. Edward Geiselman, James F. Wilson, and Alexis Artwohl
16. Effective Agency Response to the Media in Use of Force Incidents
Todd A. Lough
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