Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics - Ritz, Karl.; Dawson, Lorna; Miller, David; SpringerLink (Online service) (Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands : Imprint: Springer, 2009)
Concepts -- "Soils Ain't Soils": Context and Issues Facing Soil Scientists in a Forensic World -- Expert Scientific Evidence in Court: The Legal Considerations -- Some Thoughts on the Role of Probabilistic Reasoning in the Evaluation of Evidence -- Microbial Community Profiling for the Characterisation of Soil Evidence: Forensic Considerations -- The Current Status of Forensic Soil Examination in the Russian Federation -- Characterisation and Discrimination of Urban Soils: Preliminary Results from the Soil Forensics University Network -- Environmental Considerations for Common Burial Site Selection After Pandemic Events -- Evidence -- A Systematic Approach to Soil Forensics: Criminal Case Studies Involving Transference from Crime Scene to Forensic Evidence -- Forensic Ecology, Botany, and Palynology: Some Aspects of Their Role in Criminal Investigation -- Sediment and Soil Environmental Forensics: What Do We Know? -- Petrography and Geochemical Analysis for the Forensic Assessment of Concrete Damage -- Tracing Soil and Groundwater Pollution with Electromagnetic Profiling and Geo-Electrical Investigations -- Locating Concealed Homicide Victims: Developing the Role of Geoforensics -- Geological Trace Evidence: Forensic and Legal Perspectives -- New Observations on the Interactions Between Evidence and the Upper Horizons of the Soil -- The Forensic Analysis of Sediments Recovered from Footwear -- Using Soil and Groundwater Data to Understand Resistivity Surveys over a Simulated Clandestine Grave -- Spatial Thinking in Search Methodology: A Case Study of the 'No Body Murder Enquiry', West of Ireland -- Localisation of a Mass Grave from the Nazi Era: A Case Study -- Taphonomy -- Research in Forensic Taphonomy: A Soil-Based Perspective -- Can Temperature Affect the Release of Ninhydrin-Reactive Nitrogen in Gravesoil Following the Burial of a Mammalian (Rattus rattus) Cadaver? -- Taphonomic Changes to the Buried Body in Arid Environments: An Experimental Case Study in Peru -- Decomposition Studies Using Animal Models in Contrasting Environments: Evidence from Temporal Changes in Soil Chemistry and Microbial Activity -- Microbial Community Analysis of Human Decomposition on Soil -- Technology -- Analysis of Soils in a Forensic Context:Comparison of Some Current and Future Options -- Automated SEM-EDS (QEMSCAN®) Mineral Analysis in Forensic Soil Investigations: Testing Instrumental Reproducibility -- Rapid, Reliable and Reviewable Mineral Identification with Infrared Microprobe Analysis -- Preservation and Analysis of Three-Dimensional Footwear Evidence in Soils: The Application of Optical Laser Scanning -- Discrimination of Domestic Garden Soils Using Plant Wax Compounds as Markers -- Environmental Forensic Investigations: The Potential Use of a Novel Heavy Metal Sensor and Novel Taggants -- Separation and Concentration of Trace Evidence from Soils Using a Hydropneumatic Elutriation Trace Evidence Concentrator (TEC) -- Postscript -- Soils in Forensic Science: Underground Meets Underworld.
Keywords: Forensic science; Forensic medicine; Geotechnical engineering; Soil science; Soil conservation; Geobiology; Criminology; Forensic Science; Forensic Medicine; Geotechnical Engineering & Applied Earth Sciences; Soil Science & Conservation; Biogeosciences; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general