Kategoria BISAC: Law >> Forensic Science

In 2001, the late Murray Kleiner and an array of experts contributed to the Handbook of Polygraph Testing, published by Elsevier, which examined the fundamental principles behind polygraph tests and reviewed the key tests and methods used at that time. In the intervening thirteen years, the field has moved beyond traditional polygraph testing to include a host of biometrics and behavioral observations. The new title reflects the breadth of methods now used.

Credibility Assessment builds on the content provided in the Kleiner volume, with revised polygraph testing...

Forensic Anthropology: Current Methods and Practice--winner of a 2015 Textbook Excellence Award (Texty) from The Text and Academic Authors Association--approaches forensic anthropology through an innovative style using current practices and real case studies drawn from the varied experiences, backgrounds, and practices of working forensic anthropologists. This text guides the reader through all aspects of human remains recovery and forensic anthropological analysis, presenting principles at a level that is appropriate for those new to the field, while at the same time incorporating...

Training manual for forensic examination of questioned handwriting, signatures and documents to accompany distance course taught by Reed Hayes. The course guides students all the way from understanding handwriting features to examination and comparison of questioned and known writing, to testifying in court.

Contains 31 lessons including handwriting and signature evaluation, basis of handwriting examination, anonymous writing, disguised writing, altered documents, evaluation of altered documents, ink differentiation, typewriting and computer fonts, how to write letters of opinion,...

During the last decade, a significant number of scientific studies have supported the use of human scent as a biometric tool and indicator of the presence, or absence, of an individual at a crime scene. These findings even extend to conducting scent identification line-ups with suspects. Human Scent Evidence focuses on some of these recent advances in the use of human scent as forensic evidence and as an identifier. Topics include:

• Various theories of human odor production
• The variability, stability, and persistence of human scent
• Historical...