Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Third Edition builds on the strength of its predecessor whilst providing a more modern, digital-friendly infrastructure. Unlike the previous A-Z approach to chapter organization, it is thematically structured around sections and topics via a taxonomic approach, thus making navigation far easier for the user. New to this edition are articles encompassing the history, application, future trends, and clinical/pathological professional issues of the discipline, including topics on: forensic taphonomy, non-fatal strangulation, coercive control, forensic biology, extrajudicial-summary or arbitrary executions. This modern, fully up-to-date, easy to navigate edition, with its electronic platform and logistically and consistently structured chapters will be ideal for readers from a variety of disciplines.
Table of Contents
The 3rd edition will include 400 hundred state-of-the-art chapters an additional 40 from previously and will be structured via a section-focused approach as opposed to the previous A-Z approach. Articles will cover the whole spectrum of the profession, including on crime-solving techniques such as:
- Autopsies
- Ballistics
- Fingerprinting
- hair and fiber analysis
- procedures associated with terrorism investigations, forensic chemistry, DNA, and immunoassays.
- forensic taphonomy
- forensic biology
