Investigating Sexual Assault Cases (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780367611460)

Arthur S. Chancellor began his law enforcement career in 1973 when he enlisted in the US Army as a

Military Policeman. He remained in the MPs until 1981 when he was accepted into the US Army

Criminal Investigation Division (CID) program as a Special Agent. As a CID Special Agent, Steve

worked on felony crimes at various military posts across the United States and overseas. He later

commanded three diff erent CID units and in 2001 retired as a Chief Warrant Offi cer Four as the

Operations Offi cer for a CID battalion where he was responsible for the supervision of fi ve diff erent

CID units and covered an eleven- state area of responsibility. Once retired Steve was employed by

the Mississippi State Crime Lab as a senior crime scene analyst and conducted the examination of

violent crime scenes across the state of Mississippi. In 2004 Steve was transferred from the crime

lab to the Mississippi Bureau of Investigation (MBI) as the fi rst director of the MBI Cold Case

Unit, responsible for assisting police agencies across the state working on unresolved homicides.

While working at the Crime lab and MBI, Steve helped develop several diff erent training courses

for the Mississippi State Police Academy covering topics that included basic and advanced crime

scenes, death investigations, and adult sex crimes. Steve was also involved in the development

and as an instructor of the Certifi ed Investigator Program (CIP) at the MS State Police Academy.

Steve has a master's degree and undergrad degrees in criminal justice, is a graduate of the FBI

National Academy (Session 185), and has been a college adjunct instructor for Austin Peay State

University, Clarksville, Tennessee; University of Mississippi, Oxford, Mississippi; and Clayton

State University, Morrow, Georgia. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Science,

and a member of the International Association for Identifi cation (IAI), the International Homicide

Investigators Association (IHIA), the North Carolina Homicide Investigators Association, and the

Southeastern Homicide Investigators Association. Steve is also the co- author of the books Staged

Crime Scenes: Investigating Suspect Misdirection of the Crime Scene and Death Investigations: 1 st

and 2 n d e ditions, and the author of I nvestigating Sexual Assault Cases .

Steve has also developed and instructs courses on Staged Crime Scenes, Adult Sex Crimes,

Death Investigation, and Basic and Advanced Crime Scene Examination.