Titles of Special Interest

Practical Police Photography by Bob McMicken
Bloodstains as Evidence by Martin Matisoff and Larry Barksdale*
Advanced Crime Scene Photography by Christopher Duncan
Photoshop CS3 for Forensic Professionals by George Reis**
Police Photography 5th Edition by Larry Miller
Crime Scene Photography by Robinson and Witzke***
Photography 9th Edition by London, Stone and Upton
Practical Crime Scene Processing and Investigation by Ross Gardner
Crime Scene Investigation by Fish, Miller and Braswell
Criminalistics - An Introduction To Forensic Science 9th Ed. By Saferstein
FBI Handbook of Crime Scene Forensics
Henry Lee's Crime Scene Handbook by Henry Lee
Traffic Collision Investigation by Stannard Baker
Traffic Collision Investigation and Traffic Crash Reconstruction Package
Kirk's Fire Investigations by John DeHaan



*  Bloodstains as Evidence is new in 2011.  Sgt. Larry Barksdale of the Lincoln, NE, police department is both an educator and a homicide investigator with years of experience.

**  This book is available from imagingforensics.com with an "s," not to be confused with imagingforensic.com without the "s."  Go to the one with the "s" to buy the book.

***  Stephen Staggs published a paperback text with the title Crime Scene Photography, not to be confused with the book of the same name by Robinson and Witzke.  Pre-digital, Staggs wrote a wirebound Crime Scene and Evidence Photographer's Guide that is still in print.  The book by Robinson and Witzke is the one cited by the International Association for Identification.

On Line Bookstores

Most of the titles mentioned above are available from amazon.com.  Search the Books section for titles and subjects of interest. There you will find a dozen or more books related to homicide, suicide, death and accident investigations which, while unrelated to photography per se, might give you more insight on how to go about photographing a particular type of scene.  Other sources include:

Crime Scene Investigator Bookstore
International Association For Identification Publications
Evidence Photographer's International Council Bookstore
Imprimus Forensic Services Bookstore
Lexis-Nexis Bookstore
CRC Press
Charles C. Thomas Publisher