Forensic Science Current Issues, Future Directions

Douglas H. Ubelaker Former President, American Academy of Forensic Sciences, Colorado Springs, USA Senior Scientist, Department of Anthropology, National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., USA

List of contributors vii

Acknowledgements xix

1 Introduction 1
Douglas H. Ubelaker

2 General forensics – no one else starts until we finish 6
Julie Howe, Janet Barber Duval, Claire Shepard and Robert Gaffney

3 Criminalistics: the bedrock of forensic science 29
Susan Ballou, Max Houck, Jay A. Siegel, Cecelia A. Crouse, John J. Lentini and Skip Palenik

4 Forensic pathology – the roles of molecular diagnostics and radiology at autopsy 102
James R. Gill, Yingying Tang, Gregory G. Davis, H. Theodore Harcke and Edward L. Mazuchowski

5 The places we will go: paths forward in forensic anthropology 131
Dawnie Wolfe Steadman

6 Forensic toxicology: scope, challenges, future directions and needs 160
Barry K. Logan and Jeri D. Ropero-Miller

7 Odontology – dentistry’s contribution to truth and justice 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 and Jane A. Lewis

10 Digital evolution: history, challenges and future directions for 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 Peter Stephenson

11 Global thinking and methodologies in evidence-based forensic engineering science 292
Laura L. Liptai, Adam Aleksander, Scott Grainger, Sarah Hainsworth, Ryan Loomba and Jan Unarski

12 Jurisprudence 310
ARW Forrest and RT Kennedy

13 Global forensic science and the search for the dead and missing from armed conflict: the perspective of the International Committee of the Red Cross 337
Morris Tidball-Binz

14 Forensic systems and forensic research: an international perspective 366
DN Vieira

15 Summary and conclusions 374
Douglas H. Ubelaker

Index 399

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