Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions

✍ Scribed by Douglas H. Ubelaker (ed.)

• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 422
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Co-published with the American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Forensic Science presents comprehensive international discussion of key issues and future directions within the forensic sciences.  Written by accomplished and respected specialists in approximately eleven distinct areas of the forensic sciences, the volume will examine central issues within each discipline, provide perspective on current debate and explore current and proposed research initiatives.  It will also provide the forensically involved international community with current in-depth perspective on the key issues in the contemporary practice of the forensic sciences.Content:
Chapter 1 Introduction (pages 1–5): Douglas H. Ubelaker
Chapter 2 General Forensics – No One else Starts until we Finish (pages 6–28): Julie Howe, Janet Barber Duval, Claire Shepard and Robert Gaffney
Chapter 3 Criminalistics: The Bedrock of Forensic Science (pages 29–101): Susan Ballou, Max Houck, Jay A. Siegel, Cecelia A. Crouse, John J. Lentini and Skip Palenik
Chapter 4 Forensic Pathology – The Roles of Molecular Diagnostics and Radiology at Autopsy (pages 102–130): James R. Gill, Yingying Tang, Gregory G. Davis, H. Theodore Harcke and Edward L. Mazuchowski
Chapter 5 The Places we will go: Paths Forward in Forensic Anthropology (pages 131–159): Dawnie Wolfe Steadman
Chapter 6 Forensic Toxicology: Scope, Challenges, Future Directions and Needs (pages 160–178): Barry K. Logan and Jeri D. Ropero?Miller
Chapter 7 Odontology – Dentistry's Contribution to Truth and Justice (pages 179–210): 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
Chapter 8 Forensic Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology (pages 211–223): Stephen B. Billick and Daniel A. Martell
Chapter 9 Forensic Document Examination (pages 225–251): William M. Riordan, Judith A. Gustafson, Mary P. Fitzgerald and Jane A. Lewis
Chapter 10 Digital Evolution: History, Challenges and Future Directions for the Digital and Multimedia Sciences Section (pages 252–291): David W. Baker, Samuel I. Brothers, Zeno J. Geradts, Douglas S. Lacey, Kara L. Nance, Daniel J. Ryan, John E. Sammons and Peter Stephenson
Chapter 11 Global Thinking and Methodologies in Evidence?Based Forensic Engineering Science (pages 292–309): Laura L. Liptai, Adam Aleksander, Scott Grainger, Sarah Hainsworth, Ryan Loomba and Jan Unarski
Chapter 12 Jurisprudence (pages 310–336): ARW Forrest and RT Kennedy
Chapter 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 (pages 337–365): Morris Tidball?Binz
Chapter 14 Forensic Systems and Forensic Research: An International Perspective (pages 366–373): DN Vieira
Chapter 15 Summary and Conclusions (pages 374–398): Douglas H. Ubelaker