Forensic Science (eBook)

Editor Douglas H. Ubelaker Former President, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Colorado Springs, USA Senior Scientist, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

List of contributors vii

Acknowledgements xix

1 Introduction 1

Douglas H. Ubelaker

2 General forensics - no one else starts until we finish
6

Julie Howe, Janet Barber Duval, Claire Shepard and Robert
Gaffney

3 Criminalistics: the bedrock of forensic science 29

Susan Ballou, Max Houck, Jay A. Siegel, Cecelia A. Crouse, John
J. Lentini and Skip Palenik

4 Forensic pathology - the roles of molecular diagnostics
and radiology at autopsy 102

James R. Gill, Yingying Tang, Gregory G. Davis, H. Theodore
Harcke and Edward L. Mazuchowski

5 The places we will go: paths forward in forensic anthropology
131

Dawnie Wolfe Steadman

6 Forensic toxicology: scope, challenges, future directions and
needs 160

Barry K. Logan and Jeri D. Ropero-Miller

7 Odontology - dentistry's contribution to truth and
justice 179

Iain A. Pretty, Robert Barsley, C. Michael Bowers, Mary Bush,
Peter Bush, John Clement, Robert Dorion, Adam Freeman, Jim Lewis,
David Senn and Frank Wright

8 Forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology 211

Stephen B. Billick and Daniel A. Martell

9 Forensic document examination 224

William M. Riordan, Judith A. Gustafson, Mary P. Fitzgerald and
Jane A. Lewis

10 Digital evolution: history, challenges and future directions
for the digital and multimedia sciences section 252

David W. Baker, Samuel I. Brothers, Zeno J. Geradts, Douglas S.
Lacey, Kara L. Nance, Daniel J. Ryan, John E. Sammons and Peter
Stephenson

11 Global thinking and methodologies in evidence-based
forensic engineering science 292

Laura L. Liptai, Adam Aleksander, Scott Grainger, Sarah
Hainsworth, Ryan Loomba and Jan Unarski

12 Jurisprudence 310

ARW Forrest and RT Kennedy

13 Global forensic science and the search for the dead and
missing from armed conflict: the perspective of the International
Committee of the Red Cross 337

Morris Tidball-Binz

14 Forensic systems and forensic research: an international
perspective 366

DN Vieira

15 Summary and conclusions 374

Douglas H. Ubelaker

Index 399

"I would recommend this text to anyone wishing to learn
more about the many and varied disciplines that make up the
forensic sciences and, particularly, the role of AAFS in shaping
developments in recent years." (Journal of
Forensic Sciences, 1 July 2013)

"There is no other book on the market that provides the
perspective that these authors do on new and evolving fields in the
discipline. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All library
collections." (Choice, 1 August
2013)