Iron and Blood: A Military History of the German-Speaking Peoples since 1500 by Peter Wilson For those of you interested in Prussian/German/Austrian military history—you know who you are—Peter Wilson, author of an excellent book on the 30 Years War—has a new book out that covers half...
evidence when the clinician is faced with any medico-legal claims. Themedical historyis crucial but has limitations, not least because patients may be confused or ill informed.The history may also change radically with time, so it is essential for it to be updated before each new course of ...
Catching History's Criminals: The Forensics Story: With Gabriel Weston, Lorna Dawson, Andrea Sella, Rachel Bairstow. These absorbing programs chart 200 years' worth of innovations in the science and history of crime-solving forensic investigation.
Bertillion's Involvement In Forensic Science Bertillonage was a process of recording criminal’s body measurements to keep on file with photographs and other detailed information. This became vastly popular until fingerprinting was recognized as a more effective method. Once this was discovered he inco...
Forensic Scientists used DNA analysis evidence for the first time to solve an immigration case. The story started with a teenage boy returning to London from Ghana to be with his mother. Immigration authorities at the airport were suspicious of him, thinking that he was traveling on a forged ...
Criminal profiling has a legal history that can be traced back to the blood-labeling of Jews in Rome. Over the past 200 years, professionals engaged in the practice of criminal profiling have included a broad spectrum of investigators, behavioral scientists, social scientists, and forensic ...
The chair was impounded as evidence during the criminaltrial, but eventually it was returned to the widow of Harry Ford, who owned the theater. In 1929 the chair was auctioned off for only $2,400, to none other than Henry Ford. To this day, the chair remains a symbol of Lincoln's ...
To evaluate any entomological evidence, it is essential to know the sarcosaprophagous fauna composition of the study area [19].Chrysomya megacephalais native to the Oriental and Australasian regions, and its distribution has expanded to all continents since the 1970s: it is considered an invasive...
(Lynch et al., 2008). The collection of forensic DNA evidence in police-held databases has also been a cause for concern, with data from 0.5% of the population held in USA in CODIS, the Combined DNA Index System, and with 1% in the UK in the NDNAD, the National DNA Database (...
In the second paper, the same author mentioned an interesting misconception that “phosphate of lime contained in a certain quantity of blood” might be partly “originated from the wear and tear of the bones and the muscular tissue”. Let me cite [307]:“Supposing now the wear and tear ...