The Forensic Laboratory Handbook Procedures and Practice
Forensic science has come a long way in the past ten years. It is much more in-depth and much broader in scope, and the information gleaned from any evidence yields so much more information than it had in the past because of incredible advances in analyti
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Ashraf Mozayani, PharmD, PhD, D-ABFT Carla Noziglia, MS, FAAFS Editors
The Forensic Laboratory Handbook Procedures and Practice Second Edition
Editors Ashraf Mozayani Harris County Institute of Forensic Science Houston, TX USA [email protected]
Carla Noziglia Senior Forensic Advisor Aiken, SC USA [email protected]
ISBN 978-1-60761-871-3 e-ISBN 978-1-60761-872-0 DOI 10.1007/978-1-60761-872-0 Springer New York Dordrecht Heidelberg London Library of Congress Control Number: 2010937632 © Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 All rights reserved. This work may not be translated or copied in whole or in part without the written permission of the publisher (Humana Press, c/o Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 233 Spring Street, New York, NY 10013, USA), except for brief excerpts in connection with reviews or scholarly analysis. Use in connection with any form of information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed is forbidden. The use in this publication of trade names, trademarks, service marks, and similar terms, even if they are not identified as such, is not to be taken as an expression of opinion as to whether or not they are subject to proprietary rights. Printed on acid-free paper Humana Press is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Preface
It takes two for the truth – one to speak and another to hear – Thoreau
Mention a forensic science laboratory and Abby of NCIS might spring to mind. Nice, but not exactly a reality. Perhaps you think of writers such as Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (closer) or Kathy Reichs (reality). Whatever your persuasion, forensic science is and has been interesting to the public for many years. In this Forensic Handbook, 21 of the best of the best, the cream of the crop, the “Energizer bunnies of forensic science” (to quote Abby) have written of their specialties in the careers they love. These are real world heroes and heroines who fight crime not with a cape, but a lab coat. Just as forensic science has become more in depth and broader in scope, so, too, has this second edition. This edition contains 21 chapters to the first edition’s eight chapters, giving the reader a better insight into more uses of forensic science. There are more issues in, more challenges to, and more applications of the principles of forensic science than ever before. The information gleaned from the testing of evidence yields much more information. The procedures, analytical instruments, and interpretation of results in forensic science require the scientists to have higher and broader levels of knowledge, skill sets to encompass the tiny micro to the vast macro levels of evidence, and a myriad of abilities both in the laboratory and in the courtroom. Thus, they who perform the testing must have more and more education and career-long continuing education. The practices have also reached into areas unheard of a mere ten years ago, such as anything digital. Th
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