Emerging Technologies for the Analysis of Forensic Traces
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Beschreibung
This book provides a line of communication between academia and end users/practitioners to advance forensic science and boost its contribution to criminal investigations and court cases. By covering the state of the art of promising technologies for the analysis of trace evidence using a controlled vocabulary, this book targets the chemical and the analytical academic community as well as, crucially, informing the end users on novel and potential forensic opportunities for the fight against crime.
By reporting end users commentaries at the end of each chapter, the relevant academic community is provided with clear indications on where to direct further technological developments in order to meet the law requirements for operational deployment, as well as the specific needs of the end users.
Promising chemistry based technologies and analytical techniques as well as techniques that have already shown to various degrees an operational character are covered. Majorityof the techniques covered have imaging capabilities, that is the ability to visualise the distribution of the target molecules within the trace evidence recovered. This feature enhances intelligibility of the information making it also accessible to a lay audience such as that typically found with a court jury. Trace evidence discussed in this book include fingermarks, bodily fluids, hair, gunshot residues, soil, ink and questioned documents thus covering a wide range of possible evidence recovered at crime scenes.
This book provides a line of communication between academia and end users/practitioners to advance forensic science and boost its contribution to criminal investigations and court cases. By covering the state of the art of promising technologies for the analysis of trace evidence using a controlled vocabulary, this book targets the forensics community as well as, crucially, informing the end users on novel and potential forensic opportunities for the fight against crime.
By reporting end users commentaries at the end of each chapter, the relevant academic community is provided with clear indications on where to direct further technological developments in order to meet the law requirements for operational deployment, as well as the specific needs of the end users.
Promising chemistry based technologies and analytical techniques as well as techniques that have already shown to various degrees an operational character are covered. The majority of the techniques covered have imaging capabilities, that is the ability to visualize the distribution of the target molecules within the trace evidence recovered. This feature enhances intelligibility of the information making it also accessible to a lay audience such as that typically found with a court jury. Trace evidence discussed in this book include fingermarks, bodily fluids, hair, gunshot residues, soil, ink and questioned documents thus covering a wide range of possible evidence recovered at crime scenes.
Covers the state of the art of emerging cutting edge technologies holding the promise for operational deployment Presents topics in a controlled vocabulary enabling access to a wider range of readers Reports the viewpoint of end users in relation to each technology covered and applied to specific types of trace evidence Commentary covers potential operational capabilities and possible present incompatibilities with Law Requirements
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Simona Francese
Themen in »Emerging Technologies for the Analysis of Forensic Traces«
Criminal profiling through fingermark analysis Body fluid smart detection and discrimination Detection of drugs and metabolites in hair Soil analysis Ink and questioned document analysis Detection of gunshot residues Trace evidence analysis Trace evidence vocabulary Forensic analysis technology