Just released !
Environmental Forensics and its effects on Investigations
ISBN# 1-58961-287-6 Price: $19.95

Provides the first complete, scientific review of this emerging
medico-legal field and helps readers understand the complexities of
environmental elements that can have a dramatic impact on an
investigation. It outlines techniques for identifying differences
and how this can drastically impact the estimated time of death in
humans or any investigation where temperature, humidity, winds and
other weather elements are a factor.

Written by an expert in environmental/atmospheric investigations,
the text provides detailed information on different cooling rate
techniques applicable to the human body-post mortem and insect
growth rates in entomology, plus an in-depth look at how the
practicing meteorologist (or other forensic professional) can start
his/her own forensic business with a review of legal terms, range of
consulting fees, sample testimony letter and the nuances of dealing
with the legal profession in and out of the courtroom. Proper
protocol of a death scene investigation also reviewed.

This book gives the forensic investigator/scientist, engineer,
insurance claims adjuster and lawyer (and many more) a "checks and
balance" for conducting forensic investigations. It demonstrates the
wide range of scientific analyses techniques that are available to
answer questions of environmental liability, its impact on the
investigation and support a legal argument, and provides several
examples and case studies to illustrate how these methods are
applied. The book's multidisciplinary approach will also appeal to
practitioners, including Pathologists, Medical Examiners ,
Entomologists, Engineers, Insurance Claims, Attorneys (Defense and
Prosecution), Law Enforcement, CSI, Botanists, Toxicologists,
Construction (both private and commercial). Meteorologists,
climatologists, Botanists, Crime Scene Investigators, Prosecuting
Attorneys, Police & students studying in all forensic fields. An
excellent resource for mystery/fictional and non-fictional writers.

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