[...]... victims, as are soak-aways 1.1.2.3 Landscape and Vegetation Appraisal The use of line-searches by police officers causes the forensic archaeologist considerable consternation, as such an approach can be potentially catastrophic, damaging surface indicators of disturbance The typical police response of digging what appear to be randomly sited holes in a search area can be even more damaging, and unless... is at a stalemate, Criminal Psychology and Forensic Technology: A Collaboration Approach to Effective Profiling is the alternative information source to turn to © 2001 CRC Press LLC Contributors Thomas W Adair is a senior laboratory technician at Arapahoe County Sheriff ’s Office, Littleton, Colorado He is also employed in the Department of Bioagricultural Sciences and Pest Management at Colorado State... inform any search strategy, and will document changes over time Other types of mapping can be useful Land that is subject to protection as nature reserves or agricultural conservation schemes will almost certainly have been subject to vegetation and land-use mapping, and subsequent vegetation change will be monitored by regular aerial photography Such data is held in England and Wales by organizations... coverage of air-photographs have a fine enough degree of detail to indicate archaeological features Taking photographs of an area subsequent to its becoming an area of search and comparing such information with preexisting but preferably recent (i.e., no more than five years) coverage can be immensely useful in highlighting areas of change or disturbance Equally as important as aerial photographs is... Colorado Jonathan D Alston holds an M .A degree in criminology from Simon Fraser University in Canada He is currently a Ph.D candidate in criminology at The University of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada Michael D Biderman is assistant professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga He has special interests in computer analysis, mathematical models, and multivariate scaling... the original burial This method was successful in locating a body It took only minutes to examine each grave, and was inexpensive and unobtrusive in a sensitive setting Augers can also be used as a survey tool and auger transects undertaken as a search method Clearly, augers are not affective in stony soils and gravels, but in experienced hands can be very effective tools When, for various reasons, none... normally practice in an archaeological context as a tool-kit of options, and to bring to bear whichever of these is appropriate to any particular forensic context If none are directly appropriate, then modify an existing approach or devise a new one A key constraint © 2001 CRC Press LLC is recognition of the objectives of the investigators and applying archaeological principles and methods as appropriate... anthropologist, and the reader is referred to such works as Reich21 and Ramey Burns.22 Suffice to say that their role is to uncover as much information as possible that will contribute to identifying the remains through individuating characteristics such as ancestry, sex, age at death, stature, parity status, evidence of trauma and disease in life, and handedness The forensic anthropologist may also contribute towards... land use and the location of services The position and date of installation of water and gas mains, electricity and television cables, septic tanks, and soak-aways are essential In areas of settlement it is important to know the date of the construction of such garden features as ponds, patios, extensions to buildings, and outbuildings Patios are, in my own experience, a favored medium under which to. .. penetrating radar specialists (GPR), and aerial multispectral and thermal imagery operators Where appropriate, they employ a sequenced approach designed to narrow down the search area using a range of skills before more closely examining a specific area using a further suite of expertise Such methods include: • • • • • Cartography (including geological) Aerial photography Field skills, i.e., vegetation . bias to improve the way crimes are investigated and offender profiles are generated, as well as to test their accuracy and applicability to criminal investigations. Criminal Psychology and Forensic. Less, Bristol, AD 1000-1900; life and death in post-medieval towns and cities; Saxon cemetery populations in East Anglia; taphonomy; and forensic archaeology. Andrew Day is a clinical and forensic. Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Criminal psychology and forensic technology : a collaborative approach to effective profiling / editor, Maurice Godwin. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references