NCJ Number
153740
Editor(s)
R Saferstein
Date Published
1993
Length
480 pages
Annotation
This volume presents eight papers that aim to describe in detail the theory and practice of forensic science to both practitioners and students of the subject.
Abstract
Individual chapters explain the legal standards for the admissibility of novel scientific evidence and provide a guide to the analysis of forensic dust specimens and explanations of the forensic applications of infrared spectroscopy and infrared microscopy. Further chapters detail the principles and applications of forensic pharmacology, the structure and function of DNA, forensic DNA typing of highly polymorphic VNTR loci, and applications of the polymerase chain reaction in the DNA analysis of biological evidence. Figures, tables, photographs, chapter reference lists, and index