Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions

Copyright © 2013 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Forensic Science: Current Issues, Future Directions

Editor(s): Douglas H. Ubelaker

Published Online: 14 SEP 2012 01:51AM EST

Print ISBN: 9781119941231

Online ISBN: 9781118373880

DOI: 10.1002/9781118373880

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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.

Table of contents

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      Front Matter (pages i–xix)

    2. Chapter 1

      Introduction (pages 1–5)

      Douglas H. Ubelaker

    3. Chapter 2

      General Forensics – No One else Starts until we Finish (pages 6–28)

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

    4. 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

    5. 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

    6. Chapter 5

      The Places we will go: Paths Forward in Forensic Anthropology (pages 131–159)

      Dawnie Wolfe Steadman

    7. Chapter 6

      Forensic Toxicology: Scope, Challenges, Future Directions and Needs (pages 160–178)

      Barry K. Logan and Jeri D. Ropero-Miller

    8. 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

    9. Chapter 8

      Forensic Psychiatry and Forensic Psychology (pages 211–223)

      Stephen B. Billick and Daniel A. Martell

    10. Chapter 9

      Forensic Document Examination (pages 225–251)

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

    11. 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

    12. 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

    13. Chapter 12

      Jurisprudence (pages 310–336)

      ARW Forrest and RT Kennedy

    14. 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

    15. Chapter 14

      Forensic Systems and Forensic Research: An International Perspective (pages 366–373)

      DN Vieira

    16. Chapter 15

      Summary and Conclusions (pages 374–398)

      Douglas H. Ubelaker

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      Index (pages 399–404)

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