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Gunshot wounds may be ahead in the U.S., but stabbings lead in the UK, and disposal of the corpse is pretty much the same around the world. Written by leading forensic anthropologists and pathologists, with support on knife and saw engineering from a forensic materials engineer, this book is unique as well as useful for investigating dismembered bodies.
List of contents
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction to Criminal Human Dismemberment
Sue Black, Guy Rutty, Sarah Hainsworth and Grant Thomson
Chapter Two: Dismemberment: An Historical Perspective
Shane McCorristine
Chapter Three: Psychology and Dismemberment
David Holmes
Chapter Four: Mr Adam Vincent, Humberside Police
Mark Oliver
Chapter Five: Miss Gemma McCluskie, Metropolitan Police Service
John Nicholson
Chapter Six: Terminology
Sue Black and Grant Thomson
Chapter Seven: Principles of Tool Mark Analysis and Evidential Best Practice
Grant Thomson and Sue Black
Chapter Eight: Overview of the Examination of a Dismembered Body
Guy Rutty and Bruno Morgan
Chapter Nine: The Role of Forensic Anthropology in Cases of Dismemberment
Lucina Hackman and Sue Black
Chapter Ten: Identification Marks – Saws
S. V. Hainsworth
Chapter Eleven: Identification Marks – Knives and Other Implements
S. V. Hainsworth
Chapter Twelve: Future Research in the Analysis of Criminal Dismemberment
S. Black, N. Nic Daéid, L. Hackman and G. Thomson
Appendix 1: Additional Investigative Resources
S. Baylis and G. S. Thomson
Appendix 2: Known Cases of Criminal Dismemberment in the UK Since 1985
Sue Black
About the author
Professor Dame Sue Black is a Professor of Anatomy and Forensic Anthropology, the Director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification and the Director of the Leverhulme Research Centre for Forensic Science at the University of Dundee, UK.
Professor Guy Rutty is a Home Office registered Forensic Pathologist and is the vicechair of the International Society of Forensic Radiology and Imaging, University of Leicester, UK.
Professor Sarah Hainsworth is a Professor of Materials and Forensic Engineering, University of Leicester, UK.
Mr. Grant Thomson is a former Scenes of Crime Officer and Crime Scene Manager. He is currently a senior trainer and consultant in capacity building within fragile and conflict affected states.
Summary
Gunshot wounds may be ahead in the U.S., but stabbings lead in the UK, and disposal of the corpse is pretty much the same around the world. Written by leading forensic anthropologists and pathologists, with support on knife and saw engineering from a forensic materials engineer, this book is unique as well as useful for investigating dismembered bodies.
