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Provides the base for investigating, identifying and processing forensic dental evidence. This title provides the necessary tools and practical suggestions for forensic scientists and investigators charged with analysis of a crime scene. It contains over 200 full-color photographs of crime scene evidence, and human identification cases.
List of contents
1. Historical Dental Investigations
2. Dental Detectives
3. The Next Level in Victim Identification: Materials Properties as an Aid in Victim Identification
4. Forensic Dentistry Investigation Protocols
5. Recognition, Documentation, Evidence Collection and Interpretation of Bitemark Evidence
6. Bitemarks in England and Wales
7. Legal Issues Concerning Bitemark Evidence in the United States
8. DNA for First Responders: Recognizing, Collecting and Analyzing Biological Evidence Related to Dentistry
9. Missing/Unidentified Persons: The National Crime Information Center Dental Enhancements
10. The Disaster Victim Identification: Its General Structure and the Swiss Involvement
11. Recognizing, Documenting and Analyzing Physical Evidence in Abuse Cases
12. Managing a Mass Fatality Incident
13. Identifying Victims of 9/11 at the Office of Chief Medical Examiner New York City
14. Australasian and Multinational Disaster Victim Identification (DVI)
15. Photography and Forensic Dental Evidence
16. The Use of Digital Imaging in Human Identification and Crime Scene Analysis
Report
"This book, really more impressively a treatise, leaves no (dental) stone unturned in explicating the history, the savoir faire, the investigative potential, the litigation and the research firmly establishing the foundations of dental identifications in the firmament of the forensic sciences." --James E Starrs, Professor Emeritus of Law & Forensic Sciences, The George Washington University
"Forensic Dental Evidence: An Investigator's Handbook is a must-read for all participants in the criminal justice system--judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, investigators and police, to name a few--as well as all forensic odontologists. C. Michael Bowers, one of the world's most renowned forensic dental experts, draws upon a wealth of his expertise and that of others to put forth in a highly accessible book information and guidance that will surely prevent misidentifications and wrongful convictions." --Maurice Possley, Northern California Innocence Project at Santa Clara University Law School, Santa Clara, CA; Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist
"...this book comprehensively covers concepts and protocols necessary for criminal investigation involving dental evidence and will be of educational value and interest to many categories of reader. It is practical, up to date, informative, well-illustrated and appropriately cautionary." --Judith A Hinchliffe, Independent Forensic Odontologist, New Zealand in Journal of Forensic Odonto-Stomatology, 2011
