Forensic science : an encyclopedia of history, methods, and techniques / William J. Tilstone, Kathleen A. Savage, and Leigh A. Clark.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Tilstone, William J.
Other Authors: Savage, Kathleen A.
Clark, Leigh A.
Language:English
Published: Santa Barbara, Calif. : ABC-CLIO, [2006], ©2006.
Subjects:
Forensic sciences > Encyclopedias.
Forensic sciences > History.
Criminal investigation > Encyclopedias.
Criminal investigation > History.
Criminalistique > Encyclopédies.
Criminalistique > Histoire.
Enquêtes criminelles > Encyclopédies.
Enquêtes criminelles > Histoire.
Genre:
Encyclopedias.
Encyclopédies.
Online Access:
Connect to: Table of contents - All users (Cataloging @ Library of Congress)
Physical Description:viii, 307 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Format: Book
Contents:
  • ABO blood groups
  • Abortion
  • Accelerant residues
  • Accreditation
  • Acid phosphatase
  • Admissibility of scientific evidence
  • Age estimation
  • Alcohol
  • Amelogenin
  • American Board of Criminalistics (ABC)
  • American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD)
  • American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB)
  • Ammonium nitrate-based explosives
  • Ammunition
  • Amphetamines
  • Andrews, Tommie Lee
  • Anthropology
  • Antibody
  • Antigen
  • Antiserum
  • Arson
  • Arson and Explosives Incidents System (AEXIS)
  • Asphyxia
  • Assault
  • Associative evidence
  • Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS)
  • Automobile examination
  • Autopsy
  • Barbiturates
  • Battered baby syndrome
  • Benzidine
  • Bite marks
  • Black powder
  • Blood
  • Blood grouping
  • Blood spatters
  • Bloodstain identification
  • Bombs
  • Bradley, Stephen
  • Bulbs (Automobile, examination of in accidents)
  • Bullets
  • Bundy, Ted
  • Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF)
  • Burns
  • California Association of Criminalists (CAC)
  • Cannabis
  • Carbon monoxide
  • Casts
  • Cause of death
  • Chain of custody
  • Charred documents
  • Clandestine drug laboratories
  • Class characteristics
  • Cocaine
  • Color tests
  • Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
  • Comparison microscope
  • Contact gunshot wounds
  • Controlled substances
  • Corroborative evidence
  • Counterfeit currency
  • Crack cocaine
  • Crime laboratories
  • Crime scene
  • Criminalistics
  • Cyanide
  • Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX)
  • Databases
  • Date rape
  • Daubert ruling
  • Death
  • Dental records and Disaster Victim Identification (DVI)
  • Digital evidence
  • Digital imaging
  • Disaster management
  • Distance determination (Firearms)
  • DNA databases
  • DNA in forensic science
  • DNA population frequencies
  • Document examination
  • Drowning
  • Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA)
  • Drugfire
  • Drugs
  • Duffy, John
  • Dyadic death
  • Dynamite
  • Ecstasy
  • Ejaculate
  • Electrical injuries
  • Entomology
  • Erased writing
  • Ethics
  • Exclusion of paternity
  • Exhumation
  • Expert testimony
  • Explosions and explosives
  • Eyewitness testimony
  • Falls
  • Feces
  • Fibers
  • Field sobriety tests
  • Fingernail examination
  • Fingerprints
  • Firearms
  • Footwear
  • Forensic quality services
  • Forensic science
  • Fracture matching
  • Frye rule
  • Gacy, John Wayne
  • Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB)
  • Gas chromatography
  • Gasoline
  • Genetic markers
  • Geology
  • Glass
  • Glue sniffing
  • Gm and Km typing
  • Haigh, John George
  • Hair
  • Hallucinogens
  • Handwriting
  • Haptoglobin
  • Hashish
  • Hay, Gordon
  • Headlight filaments
  • Heroin
  • High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC)
  • Hitler diaries
  • Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)
  • Identification
  • Identity
  • Inceptive evidence
  • Indented writing
  • Individual characteristics
  • Infrared spectroscopy
  • Ink
  • Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS)
  • Integrated Ballistic Identification System (IBIS)
  • Irving, Clifford
  • Jewelry
  • Jennings, Thomas
  • Kerosene
  • Khat
  • Kicks
  • Knife wounds
  • Kumho Tire ruling
  • Latent prints
  • Lead bullets
  • Lead poisoning
  • Lewis blood typing
  • Lie detector test (Polygraph)
  • Likelihood ratio
  • Locard's exchange principle
  • Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD)
  • Maggots
  • Magic mushrooms
  • Marijuana
  • Markov, Georgi
  • Mass disaster victim identification
  • Mass spectrometry (MS)
  • Mengele, Josef
  • Methadone
  • Methamphetamine
  • Methanol and methanol poisoning
  • Microcrystal tests
  • Microscope
  • Microspectrophotometry
  • Morphine
  • Napalm
  • Narcotics
  • National Crime Information Center (NCIC)
  • National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN)
  • National Tracing Center (NTC)
  • Nitrocellulose
  • Nitroglycerin
  • Objective test
  • Odontology
  • Opium
  • Paint
  • Pan Am 103
  • Parentage testing
  • Pathology
  • Phencyclidine, phenylcyclhexyl, or piperidine (PCP)
  • Phenotypes
  • Physical evidence
  • Pitchfork, Colin
  • Poisoning
  • Poisons
  • Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR)
  • Population genetics
  • Probability and interpretation of evidence
  • Propoxyphene
  • Psilocybin
  • Psychiatry
  • Qualitative and quantitative analysis
  • Ramirez, Richard
  • Rape
  • Red cell enzymes
  • Refractive index
  • Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLP)
  • Romanov family
  • Ruxton, Buck
  • Safe insulation
  • Saliva
  • Scientific evidence
  • Semen identification
  • Serial number restoration
  • Serology
  • Sexual offenses
  • Shoe examination
  • Skeletal remains
  • Smokeless powder
  • Soil
  • Species identification
  • Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS)
  • Suicide
  • Sweat
  • Taggants
  • Teeth
  • Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC)
  • Time of death
  • Time since intercourse
  • Tire Tracks
  • Tool marks
  • Toxicology
  • Trace evidence
  • Trinitrotoluene (TNT)
  • Typewriting and printing
  • Ultraviolet (UV) and visible spectrometry
  • Urine
  • USS Iowa
  • Validation
  • Vollman, John
  • World Trade Center bombing
  • Wounds
  • X-rays.