Forensic Science category: 441 books
Handbook of Drug Interactions
A Clinical and Forensic Guide
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2011
Adverse drug reactions and interactions are still a major headache for healthcare professionals around the world. The US Food and Drug Administration's database recorded almost 300,000 serious adverse events in 2009 alone, of which 45,000 instances proved fatal. This updated new edition of the indispensable...
P5 Medicine and Justice
Innovation, Unitariness and Evidence
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
This book describes the state of the art and future prospects of the most important bio-medicolegal subdisciplines in the post-genomic framework of personalized medicine. Focusing on the three main themes Innovation, Unitariness and Evidence, the book addresses a wide range of topics, including: Bio-Medicolegal...
An End to Murder
A Criminologist's View of Violence Throughout History
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2015
The acclaimed author of such seminal works as The Occult and The Outsider and his son investigate the history and causes of unnecessary human violence.
Human history can be seen as a catalog of coldhearted murders, mindless blood feuds, appalling massacres, and devastating wars. We are the only...
Profilers
Leading Investigators Take You Inside The Criminal Mind
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
In this compilation of expert articles internationally recognized homicide investigators, most of them pioneers in developing the science and the art of profiling, share their insights gained from years of experience tracking the perpetrators of some of the most notorious crimes.Among the subjects...
Sociopolitics of Migrant Death and Repatriation
Perspectives from Forensic Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
As scholars have by now long contended, global neoliberalism and the violence associated with state restructuring provide key frameworks for understanding flows of people across national boundaries and, eventually, into the treacherous terrains of the United States borderlands. The proposed volume...
Dead Men Do Tell Tales
The Strange and Fascinating Cases of a Forensic Anthropologist
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
From a skeleton, a skull, a mere fragment of burnt thighbone, prominent forensic anthropologist Dr. William Maples can deduce the age, gender, and ethnicity of a murder victim, the manner in which the person was dispatched, and, ultimately, the identity of the killer. In Dead Men Do Tell Tales, Dr....
Teasing Secrets from the Dead
My Investigations at America's Most Infamous Crime Scenes
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2004
Teasing Secrets from the Dead is a front-lines story of crime scene investigation at some of the most infamous sites in recent history.
In this absorbing, surprising, and undeniably compelling book, forensics expert Emily Craig tells her own story of a life spent teasing secrets from the dead.
Emily...
It Can (And Does) Happen Here!
One Physician’S Four Decades-Long Journey as Coroner in Rural North Idaho
Language: English
Release Date: April 29, 2014
When a loved one dies in a mysterious manner, we rely on coroners and medical examiners to tell us what happened. The stakes are high: Coroners seek justice for the dead, exoneration for the wrongfully accused, and closure for the families of victims. They are always on call and work closely with...
Dead Center
Behind the Scenes at the World's Largest Medical Examiner's Office
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2009
A city with eight million people has eight million ways to die
For fifteen years, Shiya Ribowsky worked as a medicolegal investigator in New York City’s medical examiner’s office—the largest, most sophisticated organization of its kind in the world. Utilizing his background in medicine,...
Clinicians in Court, Second Edition
A Guide to Subpoenas, Depositions, Testifying, and Everything Else You Need to Know
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
Interacting with the legal system can be stressful and intimidating for mental health professionals. This trusted book provides user-friendly strategies to help clinicians prepare for testimony in court and other legal proceedings. Using vivid case scenarios, the author explains legal terms and offers...
by Dr Xanthe Mallett
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
All of these women are notorious, but are all of them deadly?
Child murder: A social taboo and one of the most abhorrent acts most of us can imagine.
Meet the women found guilty of murdering their own children. They represent some of the most hated women in Australia. The infamous list includes...
Psychological Science in the Courtroom
Consensus and Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2009
This rigorous yet reader-friendly book reviews the state of the science on a broad range of psychological issues commonly encountered in the forensic context. The goal is to help professionals and students differentiate between supported and unsupported psychological techniques--and steer clear of...
by Jonathan W. Gould, Phd, ABPP
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2007
Addressing key topics in child custody evaluation, this book provides essential knowledge for practitioners who want to meet the highest standards for both scientific validity and legal admissibility. The authors are leading experts who describe the latest data-based approaches to understanding and...
Manhunters
Criminal Profilers and Their Search for the World?s Most Wanted Serial Killers
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Author Colin Wilson opens this illuminating psychological discussion with the development of the 1977 Behavioral Science Unit, which was set up in order to answer the many questions surrounding serial killers: How does someone become a serial killer? How do they choose their victims, and why do they...