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

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

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Otros Autores: Kars, Henk. (Editor ), van den Eijkel, Lida. (Editor )
Formato: eBook
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2016.
Edición:1st ed. 2016.
Colección:Soil Forensics,
Materias:
Forensic science.
Geology.
Soil science.
Soil conservation.
Criminology.
Forensic Science.
Soil Science & Conservation.
Criminology and Criminal Justice, general.
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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