Description
Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Volumes 1-4, Second Edition is a pioneering four volume encyclopedia compiled by an international team of forensic specialists who explore the relationship between law, medicine, and science in the study of forensics.
This important work includes over three hundred state-of-the-art chapters, with articles covering crime-solving techniques such as autopsies, ballistics, fingerprinting, hair and fiber analysis, and the sophisticated procedures associated with terrorism investigations, forensic chemistry, DNA, and immunoassays.
Available online, and in four printed volumes, the encyclopedia is an essential reference for any practitioner in a forensic, medical, healthcare, legal, judicial, or investigative field looking for easily accessible and authoritative overviews on a wide range of topics.
Chapters have been arranged in alphabetical order, and are written in a clear-and-concise manner, with definitions provided in the case of obscure terms and information supplemented with pictures, tables, and diagrams. Each topic includes cross-referencing to related articles and case studies where further explanation is required, along with references to external sources for further reading.
- Brings together all appropriate aspects of forensic medicine and legal medicine
- Contains color figures, sample forms, and other materials that the reader can adapt for their own practice
- Also available in an on-line version which provides numerous additional reference and research tools, additional multimedia, and powerful search functions
- Each topic includes cross-referencing to related articles and case studies where further explanation is required, along with references to external sources for further reading
Table of Contents
Age Estimation
Allergies
Animal Attacks and Injuries
Bone Pathology and Antemortem Trauma
DNA and anthropology, Sex Determination, Racial Affinity Determination, Blood Grouping
Asphyxia
Autopsy
Carbon Monoxide Poisoning
Children, Stages of Development and Growth, Legal Protection and Rights
Sudden Natural Infant and Childhood Death
Coma, Definitions and Differential Diagnoses
Computer Crime and Digital Evidence
Mental Capacity Assessment
Crime-Scene Investigation and Examination, Major Incident Scene Management, Underwater Crime Scenes
Recovery of Human Remains
Suspicious Deaths
Criminal Profiling
Murder, Manslaughter, Homicide and Attempts
Decomposition, Patterns and Rates
Domestic Violence
Electric Shocks and Electrocution, Clinical Effects and Pathology
Extremes of Temperature
Fire Investigation, Evidence Recovery
Forensic Interviewing, Forensic Psychiatric Assessment, Preparation of Witnesses
Mental Handicap and Learning Disability
Drug and Alcohol Addiction, Substance Misuse, Drug-Induced Injury, Accidental and Iatrogenic
Stalking
Sex Offenders, Sexual Assault
Criminal Responsibility
Head Trauma
Healing and Repair of Wounds and Bones
Human Rights, Controls and Principles
Identification: Facial identification, Finger and Palm Prints, Footprints, Ear Prints, Challenges to Fingerprints
Forensic Photography
Radiology
Blunt Force Injury, Burns and Scalds, Explosive Injury & Firearm Injury, Sharp and Cutting-Edge Wounds
Ageing of Injuries, Postmortem Changes
Mass Murder, Mass Poisonings
Medical Definitions of Death, Legal Definitions of Death
Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide
Abortion
Medical Malpractice
Medical Records, Documentation, Confidentiality and Obligations
Crime and Mental Health
Murder-Suicide
Necrophilia
Neonaticide
Odontology
Parentage Testing
Road Traffic Accidents, Airbag-related Injuries and Deaths
Sobriety Tests and Drug Recognition
Serial Murder
Blood Identification, Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
Starvation
Urine Analysis, Hair Analysis, Alternative Body Fluids Analysis
Sudden Natural Death
Suicide & Self-harm, Suicide Predictors and Statistics
Terrorism, Torture
War Crimes & Injuries
… and many more
