Chemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence
- 1st Edition - November 23, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Author: Arian van Asten
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 7 1 5 - 4
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 1 2 - 8 2 0 7 2 1 - 5
Chemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence provides readers with the fundamental framework of forensic analytical chemistry, describing the entire process, from crime scene investiga… Read more
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Request a sales quoteChemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence provides readers with the fundamental framework of forensic analytical chemistry, describing the entire process, from crime scene investigation to evidence sampling, laboratory analysis, quality aspects, and reporting and testifying in court. In doing so, important principles and aspects are demonstrated through the various forensic expertise areas in which analytical chemistry plays a key role, including illicit drugs, explosives, toxicology, fire debris analysis and microtraces such as gunshot residues, glass and fibers. This book illuminates the underlying practical framework that governs how analytical chemistry is used in practice by forensic experts to solve crime.
Arian van Asten utilizes a hands-on approach with numerous questions, examples, exercises and illustrations to help solidify key concepts and teach them in an engaging way.
- Provides a forensic analytical chemistry framework based on how professionals actually use chemistry to solve crimes
- Introduces leading principles necessary to forensic practice understanding
- Answers key questions with a wealth of illustrations and real-world examples
Masters- and PhD-level students in Forensic Science or Analytical Chemistry; forensic expert trainees at forensic institutes and laboratories; instructors, lecturers, and professors teaching forensic analytical chemistryForensic Scientists at academic institutions; forensic experts at forensic institutes and laboratories; managers at forensic institutes and laboratories
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Dedication
- About the author
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Reader guideline
- Learning objectives
- Chapter 1. An introduction to forensic analytical chemistry
- 1.1. What will you learn?
- 1.2. Definitions
- 1.3. Questions of interest to a legal system
- 1.4. Forensic science principles
- Chapter 2. Analytical chemistry in the forensic laboratory
- 2.1. What will you learn?
- 2.2. Analytical chemistry in the forensic laboratory
- 2.3. Forensic expertise areas
- Chapter 3. Sampling and sample preparation
- 3.1. What will you learn?
- 3.2. Sampling and sample preparation in analytical chemistry
- 3.3. Statistical sampling protocols: how many samples do we analyze?
- 3.4. Sample preparation: ignitable liquid residue sampling in fire debris analysis
- Chapter 4. Qualitative analysis and the selectivity dilemma
- 4.1. What will you learn?
- 4.2. Qualitative analysis in forensic chemistry
- 4.3. Chemical identification of illicit drugs
- 4.4. The NPS challenge: addressing the selectivity dilemma
- Chapter 5. Quantitative analysis and the legal limit dilemma
- 5.1. What will you learn?
- 5.2. Quantitative analysis in forensic chemistry
- 5.3. Forensic toxicology: trace level quantitation of small molecules in complex biomatrices
- 5.4. Measurement uncertainty: addressing the legal limit dilemma
- Chapter 6. Chemical profiling, databases, and evidential value
- 6.1. What will you learn?
- 6.2. Criminalistics is the science of individualization
- 6.3. A chemical impurity profiling method for the organic explosive TNT
- 6.4. Bayes theory and the likelihood ratio
- 6.5. Building a score-based model for the forensic comparison of chemical impurity profiles
- Chapter 7. Forensic reconstruction through chemical analysis
- 7.1. What will you learn?
- 7.2. Forensic explosives investigation
- 7.3. Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS)
- 7.4. Chemical profiling and synthesis reconstruction of TATP with IRMS
- 7.5. Human provenancing: you are what you eat and drink
- Chapter 8. From data to forensic insight using chemometrics
- 8.1. What will you learn?
- 8.2. Library match scores and ROC curves
- 8.3. Exploring NPS EI mass spectra with PCA
- 8.4. Differentiating NPS isomers with PCA-LDA of EI mass spectra
- 8.5. The use of chemometric methods in forensic chemistry
- Chapter 9. Quality and chain of custody
- 9.1. What will you learn?
- 9.2. Ensuring quality in forensic expertise
- 9.3. Ensuring quality of the forensic investigation
- 9.4. Quality through forensic networks, the importance of ENFSI and OSAC
- Chapter 10. Reporting in the criminal justice system
- 10.1. What will you learn?
- 10.2. ISO 17025 reporting standards
- 10.3. Ways to raise forensic understanding in the criminal justice system
- 10.4. Bayes, verbal conclusions, “popular” fallacies, and the hierarchy of propositions
- 10.5. Reporting forensic analytical chemistry investigations
- 10.6. A template for a forensic case work report
- Chapter 11. Innovating forensic analytical chemistry
- 11.1. What will you learn?
- 11.2. Five reasons to innovate
- 11.3. How to stimulate and organize forensic science and innovation
- 11.4. Advancing forensic analytical chemistry
- 11.5. The end of a journey
- Exercises
- Copyright and image licenses
- Index
- Edition: 1
- Published: November 23, 2022
- Imprint: Elsevier
- No. of pages: 574
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780128207154
- eBook ISBN: 9780128207215
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Arian van Asten
Arian van Asten obtained his Master’s degree with honors in 1991 and his PhD in 1995 (for which he received the Kolthoff award in 1996) at the University of Amsterdam (UvA). After working for more than 10 years in the chemical industry he joined the Netherlands Forensic Institute in 2006. In June 2012 he was appointed professor at the Faculty of Science of UvA on a special chair in Forensic Analytical Chemistry. Since September 2018 he is a full-time professor of Forensic Analytical Chemistry and On-Scene Chemical Analysis at UvA. On the same date Van Asten was also appointed director of the Master’s of Forensic Science program at the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at UvA. Together with professor Maurice Aalders he leads the Co van Ledden Hulsebosch Center, the Amsterdam Center for Forensic Science and Medicine (www.clhc.nl). He has authored or co-authored more than 50 peer reviewed scientific publications on (forensic) analytical chemistry.
Affiliations and expertise
Professor of Forensic Analytical Chemistry and On-Scene Chemical Analysis, and Director of the Master’s of Forensic Science program, Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies, University of Amsterdam, The NetherlandsRead Chemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence on ScienceDirect