Veterinary Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences

ISBN-13: 9781138563728 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 476 str.

Jason H. Byrd;Patricia Norris; Nancy Bradley

Opis

Veterinary Forensic Sciences and Medicine covers all relevant aspects in a succinct, easy-to-read, comprehensive format intended to be taught in a single semester course, including the application of veterinary forensic medicine to cases. Most importantly, the book covers both the scientific and legal principles for veterinary forensic evidence. Topics include DNA and genetic evidence, entomological evidence in support of veterinary forensics, animal fighting, situational deaths including poisonings, domestic violence and cruelty, sharp and blunt force trauma, gunshots and wound ballistics, sexual assault, non-human odontology and osteology, and more.

Spis treści

1. Animal Crime Scene Investigation. 2. General Principles of Veterinary Forensic Sciences and Medicine. 3. Humane Law Enforcement: From Initial Report to Final Appeal. 4. Animal Genetic Evidence and DNA Analysis. 4. Forensic Entomology. 5. Forensic Entomology. 6. Animal Sexual Assault. 7. Blunt Force Trauma. 8. Sharp Force Trauma. 9. Gunshot Wounds and Wound Ballistics. 10. The Forensice Necropsy. 11. Forensic Veterinary Osteology. 12. Environmental and Situational Injuries/Death: Thermal, Chemical, Electrical, Hyperthermia, and Drowning. 13. Animal Fighting and Hoarding. 14. Veterinary Forensic Toxicology. 15. Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence. 16. Animal Neglect and Abuse. 17. Processing Forensic Cases Involving Agricultural Animal Species. 18. Veterinary Forensic Radiology and Imaging. 19. Legal Investigations in Shelter Medicine. 20. Animal Law.