Emerging Technologies for the Analysis of Forensic Traces

✍ Scribed by Simona Francese

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 287
• Series: Advanced Sciences and Technologies for Security Applications
• Edition: 1st ed. 2019
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

This book provides a line of communication between academia and end users/practitioners to advance forensic science and boost its contribution to criminal investigations and court cases. By covering the state of the art of promising technologies for the analysis of trace evidence using a controlled vocabulary, this book targets the forensics community as well as, crucially, informing the end users on novel and potential forensic opportunities for the fight against crime.

By reporting end users commentaries at the end of each chapter, the relevant academic community is provided with clear indications on where to direct further technological developments in order to meet the law requirements for operational deployment, as well as the specific needs of the end users.

Promising chemistry based technologies and analytical techniques as well as techniques that have already shown to various degrees an operational character are covered. The majority of the techniques covered have imaging capabilities, that is the ability to visualize the distribution of the target molecules within the trace evidence recovered. This feature enhances intelligibility of the information making it also accessible to a lay audience such as that typically found with a court jury. Trace evidence discussed in this book include fingermarks, bodily fluids, hair, gunshot residues, soil, ink and questioned documents thus covering a wide range of possible evidence recovered at crime scenes.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xxii
Mass Spectrometry Methods for the Recovery of Forensic Intelligence from Fingermarks (Melanie J. Bailey, Catia Costa)....Pages 1-28
End User Commentary on Mass Spectrometry Methods for the Recovery of Forensic Intelligence from Fingermarks (Stephen Mark Bleay)....Pages 29-31
Novel Technological Applications for Latent and Blood-Stained Fingermark Aging Studies (Josep De Alcaraz-Fossoul, Meez Islam)....Pages 33-66
End User Commentary on Novel Technological Applications for Latent and Blood-Stained Fingermark Aging Studies (Aldo Mattei)....Pages 67-73
Bioanalytical Advancements in the Reliable Visualization and Discrimination of Bodily Fluids (James Gooch, Alvaro Varela Morillas, Nunzianda Frascione)....Pages 75-102
End User Commentary on Bioanalytical Advancements in the Reliable Visualization and Discrimination of Bodily Fluids (Chris Gannicliffe)....Pages 103-107
Investigating the Age of Blood Traces: How Close Are We to Finding the Holy Grail of Forensic Science? (Maurice Aalders, Leah Wilk)....Pages 109-128
End User Commentary on Investigating the Age of Blood Traces: How Close Are We to Finding the Holy Grail of Forensic Science? (Chris Gannicliffe)....Pages 129-132
Recent Technological Developments in MALDI-MSI Based Hair Analysis (Bryn Flinders, Tom Bassindale, Ron M. A. Heeren)....Pages 133-149
End User Commentary on Recent Technological Developments in MALDI-MSI Based Hair Analysis (Eva Cuypers)....Pages 151-155
Emerging Approaches in the Analysis of Inks on Questioned Documents (Céline Weyermann, Korn-usa Techabowornkiat)....Pages 157-178
End User Commentary on Emerging Approaches in the Analysis of Inks on Questioned Documents (Ana Cristina Almeida Assis)....Pages 179-182
Advances in Analysis of Gunshot Residue (Francesco Saverio Romolo)....Pages 183-202
End User Commentary on Advances in Analysis of Gunshot Residue (Sébastien Charles)....Pages 203-206
Advances in the Analysis of Explosives (Francesco Saverio Romolo, Antonio Palucci)....Pages 207-240
End User Commentary on Advances in the Analysis of Explosives (Wolfgang Greibl)....Pages 241-243
The Application of Forensic Soil Science in Case Work and Legal Considerations (Lorna Dawson, David Parratt, Derek Auchie)....Pages 245-263
End User Commentary on The Application of Forensic Soil Science in Case Work and Legal Considerations (Lida van den Eijkel)....Pages 265-268
End User Commentary on The Application of Forensic Soil Science in Case Work and Legal Considerations (Patrick Campbell)....Pages 269-270
Back Matter ....Pages 271-275

✦ Subjects

Chemistry; Analytical Chemistry; Forensic Science; Crime Control and Security; Characterization and Evaluation of Materials