Encyclopedia of Forensic Science

摘要: Gathering the core topics of forensic science into one comprehensive volume and providing an overview each, "Encyclopedia Forensic Science, Revised Edition" is a revised expanded version award-winning original with approximately 650 entries, more than 80 new to this edition. More 12 essays are interspersed throughout reliable A-to-Z reference, describing how relates areas such as drug testing in sports, privacy concerns, misconceptions about science, interface engineering science. The encyclopedia richly illustrated 200 black-and-white photographs illustrations, plus full-color insert containing depictions firearms, tool marks, DNA analysis. Most were supplied by working scientists many different organizations.With updated appendixes aiding further research, essential edition will remain ultimate primer subject for high school college students alike. New entries include: Accidental characteristics; Airplane crashes; Alchemy; Anthropology, forensic; Birch Method; Bloodstain patterns; Robert Boyle; Color colorants; Crime labs (forensic labs); CSI effect; wars; Dust analysis; Environmental forensics; Explosive power; Glove prints; Jack Ripper; Lindbergh kidnapping; Madrid bombings; Albertus Magnus; Oaths ordeals; Sir William Brooke O'Shaughnessy; Paracelsus; Rigor mortis; Single nucleotide polymorphism (SNP); Skeletal identification; Bernard Spilsbury; Vinland Map; and, Zwikker test.