Aftermath, inc.: Cleaning up after CSI goes home
| Autor | Edward J. Schauer |
| Cargo | College of Juvenile Justice |
| Páginas | 1-2 |
Año 3, vol. VI enero-julio 2011/Year 3, vol. VI January-july 2011
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Fecha de recepción: 15/07/2010
Fecha de aceptación: 01/08/2010
AFTERMATH, INC.: CLEANING UP AFTER CSI GOES HOME
SECUELAS, INC.: LIMPIEZA HASTA DESPUÉS QUE CSI REGRESA A CASA
Dr. Edward J. Schauer
College of Juvenile Justice
ejschauer@pvamu.edu
Estados Unidos de América
By Gil Reavill (New York: Gotham books, 2007. pp. 284)
The book, Aftermath, INC.: Cleaning Up after CSI goes Home, defines and explains
the issue of serious crime scene contamination. It also expands upon crime scene
factors which cause abhorrence in the reactions and emotions of the human mind.
Crime scenes resulting from violent deaths, and cleanup following unattended deaths
with human bodies well into decomposition, demand specifically focused and dedicated
expert training and oftentimes specialized equipment. Officially, the Environmental
Protection Agency (EPA) of the United States Government considers bodily fluids to be
bio-hazardous wastes, in cases of unattended deaths, suicides, and violent deaths.
However, too often the families of the victims (or owners of the crime or accident
locations) had to clean up the scene themselves, or volunteers from among their
neighbors or religious organizations have offered to help.
The author, Gil Reavill has written expansively on the subjects of true crime
and disaster. To prepare himself for writing this book, Reavill volunteered to ride
along with the Aftermath, Inc. (Aftermath) teams and to help these technicians clean
the scenes to which they were called. He worked alongside the Aftermath technicians
for over a year on several dozen Aftermath jobs. Aftermath is one of the first
companies, if not the first, to begin developing the field of “bioremediation”. As EPA
rules on biohazard cleanup were exponentially tightened in the mid-1980s, traditional
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