Soil in Criminal and Environmental Forensics Proceedings of the Soil Forensics Special, 6th European Academy of Forensic Science Conference, The Hague /

This book follows from the 6th triennial conference of the European Academy of Forensic Sciences (EAFS) in The Hague, where forensic practitioners and academic researchers met to present and discuss their work in soil forensics and to interact with the larger forensic community. Soils play a role in...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Kars, Henk (Editor ), van den Eijkel, Lida (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Soil Forensics,
Temas:
Forensic sciences.
Geology.
Soil science.
Criminology.
Forensic Science.
Soil Science.
Acceso en línea:Texto Completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Preface
  • SECTION I: Criminal soil forensics
  • Soil traces: forensic examinations and legal context
  • Chapter 1: Forensic palynology: Checking value of pollen analysis as a tool to identify crime scene in semiarid environments
  • Chapter 2: Forensic Palynology: How pollen in dry grass can link to a crime scene
  • Chapter 3: Geological analysis of soil and anthropogenic material. Three case studies
  • Chapter 4: Forensic Soil Analysis: case study of looting at a Roman-Visigothic burial vault
  • Chapter 5: Soil comparisons using small soil traces, a case report
  • Chapter 6: Forensic comparison of soil samples
  • Chapter 7: Reinstating soil examination as a trace evidence sub-discipline
  • Chapter 8: Methodology of Forensic Soil Examination in Russia and a View on the World Standardization Process
  • SECTION II: Environmental soil forensics
  • Forensic tools for spatial and chemical analysis
  • Chapter 9: Geographical Information Systems - a working example in the Brazilian Federal Police for fighting environmental crime
  • Chapter 10: Forensic characterization of gasoline releases impacting the environment
  • Chapter 11: A general overview of pesticides in soil: Requirement of sensitive and current residue analysis methods
  • SECTION III: Searches and burial sites
  • A. Searches: co-operation, strategies and techniques
  • Chapter 12: A study of pH as an influencing factor in the survival of human remains at sites investigated by the Independent Commission for the Location of Victims Remains
  • Chapter 13: Interdisciplinary approaches to the search and location of buried bodies: a United Kingdom context
  • Chapter 14: Forensic Geophysics: How the GPR technique can help with forensic investigations
  • Chapter 15: Filter paper adsorption and ninhydrin reagent as presumptive test for gravesoil
  • B. Decomposition and degradation processes
  • Chapter 16: Changes in soil microbial activity following cadaver decomposition during spring and summer months in southern Ontario
  • Chapter 17: Soil fauna and their effects on decomposition within coniferous and deciduous tree soil samples
  • Chapter 18: Analysis of decomposition fluid collected from carcasses decomposing in the presence and absence of insects
  • Chapter 19: Forensic analysis of volatile compounds from decomposed remains in a soil environment
  • Chapter 20: GC×GC-TOFMS, the Swiss knife for VOC mixtures analysis in soil forensic investigations
  • Chapter 21: An investigation of the degradation of polymeric grave goods in soil environments.

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