Criminal investigation and detection

Frequently a substance found at a port of entry, waste site, laboratory triage facility, or even in a hazardous materials emergency will be labeled and purportedly identified.

In terms of raw numbers, the amount of world urban dwellers have increased four-fold, skyrocketing from 740 million in 1950 to almost 3.

The most important part of a CSI's (crime scene investigator) job is accurate documentation of properly collected evidence.

Investigative and Forensic Interviewing: A Personality-Focused Approach looks at the personality styles most commonly encountered in the criminal justice system and demonstrates how to use this insight to plan and conduct a productive interview.

Bringing the long tradition of radiologic pathologic correlation to forensic radiology and autopsy, this volume provides readers with a technical and interpretive foundation for applying modern cross-sectional imaging to forensic autopsy.

Medical and industrial imaging methods have come to be recognized as powerful tools for documentation and data collection in many nontraditional settings.

The identification of unknown individuals and the estimation of age, race, and gender are among the chief functions of forensic dentistry.

While many police officers undertake their work conforming to the highest ethical standards, the fact remains that unethical police conduct continues to be a recurring problem around the world.

Over the past 25 years, Harold and Darren Franck have investigated hundreds of accidents involving vehicles of almost every shape, size, and type imaginable.

Necrophilia: Forensic and Medico-legal Aspects is the first text that deals with the scientific aspects of necrophilia from a multidisciplinary point of view.

Biological and chemical weapons are a growing terrorist threat to the United States and other nations and countermeasures continue to evolve as a national and global priority issue.

The benchmark first edition of Forensic Radiology, published in 1998, was a milestone in the forensic community - a bestseller throughout the world and a standard reference for practitioners and educators alike.

Police leaders possess a plethora of rich experiences and practical and theoretical knowledge that provides fascinating insights into the current state of policing around the world.

In order to gain accreditation, every laboratory must have a superior quality assurance program.

Pediatric homicide investigations are clouded by a number of factors, not the least of which is a lack of straightforward resources.

In its short but active history, the use of DNA typing has revolutionized criminal investigations.

After 9/11, forensic epidemiology emerged as a leading investigative tool, partnering public health officers with law enforcement like never before.

When a bone of unknown origin is found at a location, forensic implications arise immediately.

Reflecting the myriad changes and advancements in the technologies involved in FTIR, particularly the development of diamond ATRs, this second edition of Fundamentals of Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy has been extensively rewritten and expanded to include new topics and figures as well as updates of existing chapters.

A forensic investigation requires a team of specialists from many different scientific fields of study along with legal and law enforcement specialists.

When a crime or other incident takes place, clothing items are often present or left behind, and can become directly involved in the case itself.

The forensic nurse has a powerful role in medical-legal investigations.

Linking the murders of an alleged serial killer to successfully present a case in court involves a specific methodology that has been scrutinized by the judicial system but is largely absent in the current literature.

Police organizations across the globe are experiencing major changes.

This book addresses every aspect of the analysis and reconstruction of the events surrounding a crime.

Each year, too many law enforcement officers die in the line of duty and too many people are killed by the police.

A burial environment is a complex and dynamic system.

The most advanced and complete forensic dentistry resource of its kind, this volume provides essential guidance in all areas of forensics odontologly.

Well-documented scenes can prove to be invaluable pieces of evidence at trial, and the ability to take compelling photographs is a critical skill for forensic scientists and investigators.

Liberally illustrated with photographs, maps, and other images, Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory, and Archaeological Perspectives offers modern techniques for obtaining clues from postmortem evidence.

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

Forensic Issues in Alcohol Testing analyzes the acute and chronic effects of alcohol intoxication and a variety of methods with which to measure alcohol concentration in blood, urine, and breath testing.

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

Extracted from the Drug Abuse Handbook, 2nd edition, to give you just the information you need at an affordable price.

An organization's employees are often more intimate with its computer system than anyone else.

Treating nuclear, biological, and chemical agent exposures presents a unique set of challenges.

Death Investigation: Systems and Procedures is the first book dedicated to the topic of death investigation from a legal standpoint as well as the administrative and operational procedures that pertain to the medical examiner and the coroner system in the United States.

Philosophers of science have long used reconstructive reasoning to develop historical explanations covering the origins of natural phenomenon.

The science of fingerprint identification isn't always cut and dry.

Handbook for Death Scene Investigators provides concise information in a handy, pocket-sized (3 1/2"e; x 6"e;) format - perfect for on-the-scene reference.

It fills a void in the resources available to researchers and practitioners in forensic hair examination by providing photographic archetypes for the microscopic characteristics of human hair and the variates of the characteristics seen in forensic examinations, including curl; color; pigment distribution and density; cortical fusi; and ovoid bodie

Avoid Major Investigative TrapsWhat causes competent and dedicated investigators to make avoidable mistakes, jeopardizing the successful resolution of their cases?

Encouraged by the medicinal success of quinine, early 19th century scientists hoped strychnine, another plant alkaloid with remarkable properties, might also become a new weapon against disease.

Postmortem Toxicology of Abused Drugs considers the role of toxicology in death investigation and gives practical insights on conducting toxicology tests and completing the toxicology report.

Beginning with a definition and explanation of scheduling of controlled substances, Pathology, Toxicogenetics, and Criminalistics of Drug Abuse covers investigative methods for all illegal drugs and several legitimate pharmaceuticals that are used illicitly, including steroids.

This book is a concise and focused volume on the metabolism and measurable effects of drugs on the human body.

In the wake of the Daubert ruling, the use of forensic toolmark evidence in court has been problematic, in that the conclusions of forensic scientists as to toolmark origin often lack scientifically sound statistical proof.

From sexual abuse and fetishism to necrophilia and sadomasochism, this unique volume identifies fourteen classifications of unusual sexual pathologies.

REAL-LIFE CASES, TUTORIAL QUESTIONS, NARRATIVE HISTORYIntriguing anecdotal pedagogy, like the alleged arsenical poisonings of Napoleon and President Taylor and the probable mercury overdose of Isaac Newton, is one of the things that set Toxicology: A Case-Oriented Approach apart from other toxicology texts.

Governed by strict regulations and the intricate balance of complex interactions among variables, the application of mechanics to vehicle crashworthiness is not a simple task.