Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine
- 3rd Edition - October 15, 2024
- Editors: Jason Payne-James, Roger Byard
- Language: English
- Hardback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 4 1 - 7
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 1 4 4 2 - 4
Encyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Third Edition builds on the strength of its predecessor whilst providing a more modern, digital-friendly infrastructure. Unlike th… Read more
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Request a sales quoteEncyclopedia of Forensic and Legal Medicine, Third Edition builds on the strength of its predecessor whilst providing a more modern, digital-friendly infrastructure. Unlike the previous A-Z approach to chapter organization, it is thematically structured around sections and topics via a taxonomic approach, thus making navigation far easier for the user. New to this edition are articles encompassing the history, application, future trends, and clinical/pathological professional issues of the discipline, including topics on: forensic taphonomy, non-fatal strangulation, coercive control, forensic biology, extrajudicial-summary or arbitrary executions.
This modern, fully up-to-date, easy to navigate edition, with its electronic platform and logistically and consistently structured chapters will be ideal for readers from a variety of disciplines.
- Comprehensive, one-stop reference work containing approx. 400 articles, including 40 brand new ones
- Provides a modern, thematic structure, reflecting how researchers and professionals actually use content
- Includes emerging issues like genealogical searches and human rights
- Contains a diverse, international authorship, with expert contributions from around the world, providing the most up-to-date content
Students, researchers and forensic practitioners involved in forensic science/forensic medicine and law/legal medicine, including criminologists and legal practitioners Social scientists, governmental/criminal justice programmes
The 3rd edition will include 400 hundred state-of-the-art chapters – an additional 40 from previously – and will be structured via a section-focused approach as opposed to the previous A-Z approach. Articles will cover the whole spectrum of the profession, including on crime-solving techniques such as:
- Autopsies
- Ballistics
- Fingerprinting
- hair and fiber analysis
- procedures associated with terrorism investigations, forensic chemistry, DNA, and immunoassays.
- forensic taphonomy
- forensic biology
- No. of pages: 3450
- Language: English
- Edition: 3
- Published: October 15, 2024
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Hardback ISBN: 9780443214417
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Jason Payne-James
Director - Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd; Forensic Medical Examiner - Metropolitan Police Service, City of London Police; Consultant - National Crime Faculty & National Injuries Database
Affiliations and expertise
Director - Forensic Healthcare Services Ltd; Forensic Medical Examiner - Metropolitan Police Service, City of London Police; Consultant - National Crime Faculty & National Injuries DatabaseRB
Roger Byard
Affiliations and expertise
University of Adelaide, Australia