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Forensic Science

Editors: Ayn Embar-Seddon, Corinthian Colleges,
   and Allan D. Pass, Director of National Behavioral
   Science Consultants
ISBN: 978-1-58765-423-7
List Price: $364

October 2008 · 3 volumes · 1,224 pages · 8"x10"

Forensic Science
Table of Contents

A
Accelerants
Accident investigation and reconstruction
Actuarial risk assessment
Adipocere
Air and water purity
Air plume and chemical analysis
Airbag residues
Aircraft accidents
Airport security
Alcohol-related offenses
Algor mortis
Alternate light source analysis
American Academy of Forensic Sciences
American Board of Forensic Toxicology
American Law Institute standard
American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors
Amphetamines
Anabolic Steroid Act of 1990
Anabolic Steroid Control Act of 2004
Analytical instrumentation
Anastasia identification
Ancient criminal cases and mysteries
Ancient science in law and courtrooms
Animal evidence
Antemortem injuries
Anthrax
Anthrax murder investigation
Anthropometry
Anti-Anxiety agents
Antibiotics
Antipsychotics
Architecture and structural analysis
Argentine disappeared children
Army Medical Research Institute of Infectious Diseases, U.S.
Arsenic
Arson
Art forgery
Art identification
Artificial fibers
Asphyxiation
Assassination
Athlete drug testing
Atomic absorption spectrophotometry
Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder medications
Autoerotic asphyxiation
Automated fingerprint identification system
Autopsies

B
Bacteria, classification, growth and reproduction
Bacterial biology
Bacterial resistance and response to antibacterial agents
Ballistic fingerprints
Ballistics
Barbiturates
Beethoven's cause of death
Beslan victim identification
Biodetectors
Biohazard bag
Biological terrorism
Biological warfare diagnosis
Biological weapon identification
Biological Weapons Convention of 1972
Biometric eye scans
Biometrics
Biosensors
Biotoxin
Bite mark analysis
Blast seat
Blood agents
Blood, presumptive test
Blood residue and stains
Blood spatter analysis
Blood volume testing
Bloody Sunday
Blunt-force trauma
Body farms
Body marks
Bomb damage assessment
Bomb detection devices
Bomb detection devices
Bombings
Borderline personality disorder
Botulinum toxin
Brain wave scanners
Breathalyzer
Brockovich/PG&E case
Bubonic plague
Bugs and bug detectors
Bullet lead analysis
Bullet track analysis
Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms
Buried body locating
Burn pattern analysis

C
Cadaver dogs
Cameras
Canine substance detection
Carbon monoxide poisoning
Casting
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Chain of custody
Challenger and Columbia crash investigations
Check alteration and washing
Chemical agents
Chemical and biological detection
Chemical Biological Incident Response Force, U.S.
Chemical identification
Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, U.S.
Chemical separation methods
Chemical terrorism
Chemical warfare
Chemical Weapons Convention of 1997
Chemicals involved in toxic tort cases
Chicago nightclub fire
Child abductions/kidnapping
Child and spousal abuse
Choking, signs of
Christopher Columbus's remains identification, early 2000s
Chromatography
Civil courts and forensic evidence
Class vs. individual evidence
Closed-circuit television
Club drugs
CODIS: combined DNA\index system
Coffin birth
Cognitive interview technique
Cold Case
Column chromatography
Competency evaluation and assessment instruments
Competency, legal
Composite drawing
Computer crime investigation
Computer forensics
Computer fraud and abuse legislation
Computer hacking
Computer hardware and software security
Computer keystroke recorder
Computer modeling
Computer software security
Computer virus and worm
Confocal microscopy
Control samples
Controlled Substances Act of 1970
Coroner system
Counterfeit detection pens
Counterfeiting
Crack cocaine
Crime laboratories
Crime scene protective gear
Crime scene cleaning
Crime scene documentation
Crime scene investigation
Crime scene measurement
Crime scene photography
Crime scene reconstruction and staging]
Crime scene screening tests
Crime scene search patterns
Crime scene sketching and diagramming
Criminal personality profiling
Criminalistics
Criminology
Croatian and Bosnian war victim identification
Cross contamination of evidence
Cryptology and number theory
CSI
Cyanide
Cyberstalking

D
Data forensics
Daubert v. Merrell Dow
Death determination and certification
Decomposition, human
Decontamination methods
Decryption of codes and ciphers
Defensive wounds
Dial tone decoders
Digital imaging
Dioxin
Direct vs. circumstantial evidence
Disturbed evidence
DNA analysis
DNA banks for endangered animals
DNA evidence and social issues
DNA extracted from bodily hair, fluids, and other tissues
DNA fingerprinting
DNA interpreting in mass graves
DNA isolation methods
DNA postconviction analysis
DNA profiling
DNA recognition instruments
DNA sequencing
DNA typing
Document examination
Dosimetry
Driving injuries
Drowning
Drowning
Drug abuse and dependence
Drug classification
Drug confirmation tests
Drug Enforcement Administration
Drug paraphernalia
Drugfire
DSM-IV-TR
Duty to warn

E
Ear prints
Ebola virus
Electrical injuries and death
Electromagnetic spectrum analysis
Electromagnetic weapons and their biochemical effects
Electronic voice alteration
Electrophoresis
Energy dispersive spectroscopy
Environmental Measurements Laboratory
Epidemiology
Epilepsy
Escherichia coli
Ethics of DNA analysis
Ethics of forensic sciences
European Network of Forensic Science Institutes
Evidence processing
Exhumation
Exothermic reactions
Expert witnesses
Explosions
Eye/Pupil recognition systems
Eyewitness testimony

F
Facial recognition software
False memories
Famous Hollywood forensic cases
Fax machine, copier, and printer analysis
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Federal Bureau of Investigation Crime Lab
Federal Bureau of Investigation DNA Analysis Units
Federal Bureau of Investigation Forensic Science Research and Training Center
Federal Law Enforcement Training Center
Federal rules of evidence
Fibers and filaments
Films
Fines Enhancement Laws of 1984 and 1987
Fingerprint analysis
Fire debris
Firearms analysis
Fires
First responders
Flame analysis
Flight data recorders
Fluorescence analysis
Food and Drug Administration, U.S.
Food poisoning
Food supply protection
Foot and shoe prints
Forensic accounting
Forensic anthropology
Forensic archaeology
Forensic botany
Forensic entomology
Forensic Files
Forensic geology
Forensic mental health
Forensic nursing
Forensic odontology
Forensic palynology
Forensic pathology
Forensic photography
Forensic psychiatry
Forensic psychology
Forensic Science Service, U.K.
Forensic sculpture
Forensic toxicology
Forgery
Fourier transform infrared spectrophotometer
Fracture matching
Fraud
Frye v. United States

G
Gang violence evidence
Gas chromatography
Genocide investigation
Geographic profiling
Geological material
Geographic Information System
Geospatial imaging
Gestational age determination
Glass
Guilty but mentally incompetent
Gunshot residue
Gunshot wounds

H
Habeas corpus
Hacking and cracking
Hair analysis
Halcion
Hallucinogens
Handwriting analysis
Hanging
Hantavirus
Harrison Narcotic Act of 1914
Hemorrhagic fevers and diseases
Hesitation wounds during suicide
High-performance liquid chromatography
Hit-and-run vehicle offenses
Hitler diary hoax
Holland v. United States
Holocaust investigation
Holocaust, property identification
Homicide
Homogeneous enzyme immunoassay
Hostage negotiations
Howard Hughes's will
Hypothermia

I
Identity theft
Illicit drug manufacture
Illicit drugs
Imaging
Immune system
Impression evidence
Improvised explosive devices
Indicator, acid-base
Infrared detection devices
Inhalant abuse
Innocence projects
Insanity defense
Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System
Integrated Ballistics Identification System
International Association for Craniofacial Identification
International Association for Identification
International Association of Forensic Science
International Organization of Forensic Toxicologists
Internet tracking and tracing
Interpol
Interpol, U.S. National Central Bureau
Interrogation
Irresistible impulse
Isotopic analysis

J
Jefferson, Thomas, paternity issue
Journalism

K
Kennedy assassination
Kennewick man
Kidd blood grouping system
Knife wounds

L
L-Gel decontaminating
Laboratory accreditation
Laser ablation-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry
Laser fingerprint analysis
Lasers
Lead
Less-lethal weapons technology
Lincoln exhumation
Lindbergh baby kidnapping
Linguistics, forensic stylistics
Literature
Living forensics
Livor mortis
Locard's exchange principle
Lock-picking
Louis XVII identification
Luminol

M
Mad cow disease investigation
Mail sanitization
Malicious data
Mandatory drug testing
Markov, Georgi, murder investigation
Marsh test
Mass casualties and disasters
Mass spectrometry
Medicine
Megan's Law
Mens rea
Mercury
Metal detectors
Meteorology
Micro-Fourier transform infrared spectrometry
Micro-Spectrophotometry
Microcrystalline tests
Microscopes
Military courts and forensic evidence
Minnesota Multiphasic Personality Inventory
Miranda v. Arizona
Misconceptions fostered by media
Missing children
Mitochondrial DNA analysis and typing
Monochromatic light analysis
Multisystem method
Mummification
Mustard gas

N
Napoleon's cause of death
Narcotics
National Church Arson Task Force
National DNA Index System FBI Database
National Institute of Justice
National Institute of Standards and Technology, Computer Security Division, U.S.
National Integrated Ballistics Identification Network
National Transportation Safety Board
Navy Criminal Investigative Service
Nerve agents
Nervous system, human
Nicholas II identification
Night vision devices
Nipah virus
Nuclear detection devices
Nuclear spectroscopy
Nucleic acid analysis

O
Oblique lighting analysis
Oklahoma City bombing
Opiates
Oral autopsy
Orthotolidine solution
Osteology and skeletal radiology

P
Paint
Paper
Parasitology
Parental alienation syndrome
Paternity evidence
Paternity testing
Pathogen genomic sequencing
Pathogen transmission
Pathology
Pattern evidence
Performance-enhancing drugs
PERK
Perspective analysis
Peruvian ice maiden
Petechial hemorrhage
Photo alteration detection
Photogrammetry
Photographic resolution
Physical evidence
Physiology
Plastic prints
Point of entry/exit analysis
Point-by-point analysis
Poison and antidote analysis
Polarized light microscopy
Police psychology
Pollen and pollen rain
Polygraph analysis
Polymerase chain reaction
Prints
Product liability cases
Product tampering
Pseudoscience and forensics
Psychological autopsy
Psychological profiling
Psychopathic personality disorder
Psychotropic drugs
Puncture wounds

Q
Quality control of evidence
Quantitative and qualitative analysis of chemicals
Questioned document analysis

R
Racial profiling
Radiation damage to tissues
Radiological threat analysis
Rape
Rape kit
Reagents
Reference sampling
Refractive index measuring
Restriction fragment length polymorphism
Ricin
Rigor mortis
Ritual killings

S
Sacco and Vanzetti case
Saliva
Sarin
Satellites, nongovernmental high resolution
Scanning electron microscopy
Scanning technologies
Scent identification
Secret Service, U.S.
Semen and sperm
Separation tests
September 11, 2001, terrorist attack victim identification
Serology
Sex determination
Sexual dimorphism
Sexual predation characteristics
Shaken baby syndrome
Sherlock Holmes stories
Short tandem repeat analysis
Silence of the Lambs
Silencers, gun
Silicone breast implant cases
Silkwood/Kerr-McGee case
Simpson, O. J., murder trial
Sinus print
Skeletal analysis
Skeletal system, human
Smallpox
Smoke inhalation
Sobriety testing
Soil
Soman gas
Spectrographs
Spectroscopy
Sports souvenir forgery
State courts and forensic evidence
Statistical interpretation of evidence
Statutory submission of evidence
Steganography
Stimulants
Strangulation
Suffocation
Suicide
Superglue fuming
Supreme Court, U.S., and forensic evidence

T
Tabun gas
Tape
Taphonomy
Tattoo identification
Taylor, Zachary, exhumation
Telephone caller identification
Telephone recording systems
Telephone tap detector
Thalidomide
Thanatology
Thin layer chromatography
Tire tracks
Tool marks
Toxic torts
Toxicological analysis
Trace evidence
Training and licensing of forensic professionals
Transfer evidence
Trial consultants
Truth serum
Tsunami victims in Southeast Asia identification
Tularemia
Typewriter analysis

U
Ultraviolet light analysis
Ultraviolet spectrophotometry
Unabomber case
Uncertainty analysis
University of Tennessee Forensic Anthropology Facility

V
ValuJet Flight 592 crash investigation
Variola virus
Victimology
Video evidence
Violent sexual predator statutes
Viral biology
Visible microspectrophotometry
Voiceprints

W
War crimes trials
War forensics
Water accidents
Water contamination analysis
Wildlife forensics
World Trade Center bombing
Writing instrument analysis

XYZ
X-ray diffraction
X-ray fluorescence
Y chromosome analysis

Appendixes
Annotated bibliography of general works
Biographical directory of key figures in the history of the field
Glossary
Guide to online resources--public and proprietary
Organization directory
Television shows in which forensic sciences figures prominently
Time Line of major events and developments in the forensic sciences

Category index
Subject index


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