Forensic Science

List of contributors vii
Acknowledgements xix
1 Introduction 1
Douglas H. Ubelaker
2 General forensics - no one else starts until we finish6
Julie Howe, Janet Barber Duval, Claire Shepard and RobertGaffney
3 Criminalistics: the bedrock of forensic science 29
Susan Ballou, Max Houck, Jay A. Siegel, Cecelia A. Crouse, JohnJ. Lentini and Skip Palenik
4 Forensic pathology - the roles of molecular diagnosticsand radiology at autopsy 102
James R. Gill, Yingying Tang, Gregory G. Davis, H. TheodoreHarcke and Edward L. Mazuchowski
5 The places we will go: paths forward in forensic anthropology131
Dawnie Wolfe Steadman
6 Forensic toxicology: scope, challenges, future directions andneeds 160
Barry K. Logan and Jeri D. Ropero-Miller
7 Odontology - dentistry's contribution to truth andjustice 179
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
8 Forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology 211
Stephen B. Billick and Daniel A. Martell
9 Forensic document examination 224
William M. Riordan, Judith A. Gustafson, Mary P. Fitzgerald andJane A. Lewis
10 Digital evolution: history, challenges and future directionsfor the digital and multimedia sciences section 252
David W. Baker, Samuel I. Brothers, Zeno J. Geradts, Douglas S.Lacey, Kara L. Nance, Daniel J. Ryan, John E. Sammons and PeterStephenson
11 Global thinking and methodologies in evidence-basedforensic engineering science 292
Laura L. Liptai, Adam Aleksander, Scott Grainger, SarahHainsworth, Ryan Loomba and Jan Unarski
12 Jurisprudence 310
ARW Forrest and RT Kennedy
13 Global forensic science and the search for the dead andmissing from armed conflict: the perspective of the InternationalCommittee of the Red Cross 337
Morris Tidball-Binz
14 Forensic systems and forensic research: an internationalperspective 366
DN Vieira
15 Summary and conclusions 374
Douglas H. Ubelaker
Index 399