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The dead talk. To the right listener, they tell us all about themselves: where they came from, how they lived, how they died - and who killed them. Forensic scientists can unlock the mysteries of the past and help justice to be done using the messages left by a corpse, a crime scene or the faintest of human traces. Forensics uncovers the secrets of forensic medicine, drawing on interviews with top-level professionals, ground-breaking research and Val McDermid's own experience to lay bare the s...

Forgeries present a daunting problem to art historians, museums, galleries and curators who face challenges in determining the authenticity of paintings. Recent progress in science has led to the development of new methods for investigating works of art, and can provide new insights into the materials found in paintings. The rise in the value of paintings together with the knowledge and skills of forgers highlights the need to develop reliable scientific procedures to identify fakes. Given the c...

Examines the possible source of HIV, analyzing a number of theories concerning its origins and investigating current scientific inquiries into HIV, AIDS, and the search for a cure.

This text provides training on the fundamental tools and methodologies used in active forensic laboratories for the complicated analysis of fire debris and explosives evidence. It is intended to serve as a gateway for students and transitioning forensic science or chemistry professionals. The book is divided between the two disciplines of fire debris and explosives, with a final pair of chapters devoted to the interplay between the two disciplines and with other disciplines, such as DNA and...

Today's resources on bloodstain analysis are still based on methods that were derived in the 1920s. Although medical and clinical research have provided a growing body of information on blood composition and behavior, this information has been ignored in favor of historical bloodstain analysis methods-until now. With 25 years of experience in the field, author Anita Wonder shows how to use these new methods for interpreting bloodstains, including non-Newtonian fluid behavior (a process that does...

Although forensic medicine has been in existence for centuries in one guise or another, it is only with the recent growth in international research that it has begun to be acknowledged as a specific discipline in its own right. Many areas of progress are being made and this text aims to provide a unique, in-depth and critical update on selected topics that are of direct relevance to those practicing in the field including lawyers, police, medical and dental practitioners, forensic scientists and...

Das vorliegende Buch gibt Personen mit Ermittlungsauftrag einen Überblick über aktuelle Entwicklungen und Methoden in der modernen Forensik. Es zeigt insbesondere, wie computergestützte Methoden neue Wege in der klassischen Forensik weisen und durch Digitalisierung und Verknüpfung mit Informationen der digitalen Forensik ein vollständigeres Bild eines Verbrechens entsteht. Neben Möglichkeiten der ganzheitlichen Tat- und Tathergangsrekonstruktion wird Praktikern der Stand der Technik in vielen fo...

How well do you REALLY know your neighbours? RIGHT NOW around 600 unconvicted murderers are living quiet respectable lives in Britain. Killers like Ian Lowther who married, brought up a daughter and led a law-abiding life in the 23 years after brutally murdering Mary Gregson. Men who, in the past, could have relaxed in the certain knowledge that they would never be caught. When the police finally came for Lowther at his house overlooking the very canal where he murdered Gregson, it wasn't due to...

In der Trauma-Biomechanik werden die Prinzipen der Mechanik auf biologisches Gewebe und menschliche Korper angewendet und deren Reaktion und Toleranz auf extreme mechanische Belastung untersucht. Dabei ist das Verstandnis der mechanischen Faktoren, die hauptsachlichen Einfluss auf die Funktionsfahigkeit und die Struktur des Gewebes haben, entscheidend, um Gegenmassnahmen zur Minderung oder Verhinderung von Verletzungen zu entwickeln.Die Trauma Biomechanik deckt ein weites Spektrum an Fragestellu...

The analysis of plants, insects, soil and other particulates from scenes of crime can be vital in proving or excluding contact between a suspect and a scene, targeting search areas, and establishing a time and place of death. Forensic Ecology: A Practitioner’s Guide provides a complete handbook covering all aspects of forensic ecology. Bringing together the forensic applications of anthropology, archaeology, entomology, palynology and sedimentology in one volume, this book provides an essential...

A truly interdisciplinary approach to this core subject within Forensic Science Combines essential theory with practical crime scene workIncludes case studiesApplicable to all time periods so has relevance for conventional archaeology, prehistory and anthropologyCombines points of view from both established practitioners and young researchers to ensure relevance

“There is no branch of detective science which is so important and so much neglected as the art of tracing footsteps.  Happily, I have always laid great stress upon it, and much practice has made it second nature to me.” Sherlock Holmes, Study of Scarlet. Despite the fictional nature of Sherlock Holmes this statement rings true today.  The study of footwear is neglected in modern forensic practice and does have much to offer.  What it needs is an injection of technology and modern analytical to...