Soil in Criminal and Environmental Forensics : Proceedings of the Soil Forensics Special, 6th European Academy of Forensic Science Conference, The Hague - Kars, Henk.; van den Eijkel, Lida.; SpringerLink (Online service) (Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016)
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.
Keywords: Forensic science; Geology; Soil science; Soil conservation; Criminology; Forensic Science; Geology; Soil Science & Conservation; Criminology and Criminal Justice, general