Sources: Forensic Science: An Encyclopedia of History, Methods, and Techniques

Abstract

Written by experts for the general audience, this A-Z presentation covers all aspects of forensic science from its beginning to its central place in modern law enforcement. ABO blood groups -- Abortion -- Accelerant residues -- Accreditation -- Acid phosphatase -- Admissibility of scientific evidence -- Age estimation -- Alcohol -- Amelogenin -- American Board of Criminalistics (ABC) -- American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors (ASCLD) -- American Society of Crime Laboratory Directors/Laboratory Accreditation Board (ASCLD/LAB) -- -- Ammonium nitrate-based explosives -- Ammunition -- Amphetamines -- Andrews, Tommie Lee -- Anthropology -- Antibody -- Antigen -- Antiserum -- Arson -- Arson and Explosives Incidents System (AEXIS) -- Asphyxia -- Assault -- Associative evidence -- Automated Fingerprint Identification System (AFIS) -- Automobile examination -- Autopsy -- Barbiturates -- Battered baby syndrome -- Benzidine -- Bite marks -- Black powder -- Blood -- Blood grouping -- Blood spatters -- Bloodstain identification -- Bombs -- Bradley, Stephen -- Bulbs (Automobile, examination of in accidents) -- Bullets -- Bundy, Ted -- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (BATF) -- Burns. California Association of Criminalists (CAC) -- Cannabis -- Carbon monoxide -- Casts -- Cause of death -- Chain of custody -- Charred documents -- Clandestine drug laboratories -- Class characteristics -- Cocaine -- Color tests -- Combined DNA Index System (CODIS) -- Comparison microscope -- Contact gunshot wounds -- Controlled substances -- Corroborative evidence -- Counterfeit currency -- Crack cocaine -- Crime laboratories -- Crime scene -- Criminalistics -- Cyanide -- Cyclotrimethylenetrinitramine (RDX) -- Databases -- Date rape -- Daubert ruling -- Death -- Dental records and Disaster Victim Identification (DVI) -- Digital evidence -- Digital imaging -- Disaster management -- Distance determination (Firearms) -- DNA databases -- DNA in forensic science -- DNA population frequencies -- Document examination -- Drowning -- Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) -- Drugfire -- Drugs -- Duffy, John -- Dyadic death -- Dynamite. Ecstasy -- Ejaculate -- Electrical injuries -- Entomology -- Erased writing -- Ethics -- Exclusion of paternity -- Exhumation -- Expert testimony -- Explosions and explosives -- Eyewitness testimony -- Falls -- Feces -- Fibers -- Field sobriety tests -- Fingernail examination -- Fingerprints -- Firearms -- Footwear -- Forensic quality services -- Forensic science -- Fracture matching -- Frye rule -- Gacy, John Wayne -- Gamma hydroxybutyrate (GHB) -- Gas chromatography -- Gasoline -- Genetic markers -- Geology -- Glass -- Glue sniffing -- Gm and Km typing -- Haigh, John George -- Hair -- Hallucinogens -- Handwriting -- Haptoglobin -- Hashish -- Hay, Gordon -- Headlight filaments -- Heroin -- High Performance Liquid Chromatography (HPLC) -- Hitler diaries -- Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA) -- Identification -- Identity -- Inceptive evidence -- Indented writing -- Individual characteristics -- Infrared spectroscopy -- Ink -- Integrated Automated Fingerprint Identification System (IAFIS) -- Integrated Ballistic Identification System (IBIS) -- Irving, Clifford. Jewelry -- Jennings, Thomas -- Kerosene -- Khat -- Kicks -- Knife wounds -- Kumho Tire ruling -- Latent prints -- Lead bullets -- Lead poisoning -- Lewis blood typing -- Lie detector test (Polygraph) -- Likelihood ratio -- Locard's exchange principle -- Lysergic acid diethylamide (LSD) -- Maggots -- Magic mushrooms -- Marijuana -- Markov, Georgi -- Mass disaster victim identification -- Mass spectrometry (MS) -- Mengele, Josef -- Methadone -- Methamphetamine -- Methanol and methanol poisoning -- Microcrystal tests -- Microscope -- Microspectrophotometry -- Morphine -- Napalm -- Narcotics -- National Crime Information Center (NCIC) -- National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN) -- National Tracing Center (NTC) -- Nitrocellulose -- Nitroglycerin -- Objective test -- Odontology -- Opium -- Paint -- Pan Am 103 -- Parentage testing -- Pathology -- Phencyclidine, phenylcyclhexyl, or piperidine (PCP) -- Phenotypes -- Physical evidence -- Pitchfork, Colin -- Poisoning -- Poisons -- Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) -- Population genetics -- Probability and interpretation of evidence -- Propoxyphene -- Psilocybin -- Psychiatry. Qualitative and quantitative analysis -- Ramirez, Richard -- Rape -- Red cell enzymes -- Refractive index -- Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphisms (RFLP) -- Romanov family -- Ruxton, Buck -- Safe insulation -- Saliva -- Scientific evidence -- Semen identification -- Serial number restoration -- Serology -- Sexual offenses -- Shoe examination -- Skeletal remains -- Smokeless powder -- Soil -- Species identification -- Sudden Infant Death Syndrome (SIDS) -- Suicide -- Sweat -- Taggants -- Teeth -- Thin Layer Chromatography (TLC) -- Time of death -- Time since intercourse -- Tire Tracks -- Tool marks -- Toxicology -- Trace evidence -- Trinitrotoluene (TNT) -- Typewriting and printing -- Ultraviolet (UV) and visible spectrometry -- Urine -- USS Iowa -- Validation -- Vollman, John -- World Trade Center bombing -- Wounds -- X-rays.