Table of Contents

• Chapter 1: Introduction to forensic science
• Chapter 2: The crime scene
• Chapter 3: Trace and contact evidence
• Chapter 4: Trace and contact evidence Part II: Fingerprints and other marks and impressions
• Chapter 5: The examination of body fluids, including bloodstain pattern analysis
• Chapter 6: The analysis of deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA): DNA profiling
• Chapter 7: Forensic toxicology and drugs of abuse
• Chapter 8: Questioned documents
• Chapter 9: Firearms
• Chapter 10: Fires
• Chapter 11: Explosions and explosives
• Chapter 12: The recovery and forensic examination of human remains
• Chapter 13: Statistics and the analysis, interpretation and evaluation of evidence
• Chapter 14: Forensic science in court

About the Author

Professor Andrew Jackson is the Academic Group Leader of Forensic and Crime Science at Staffordshire University, UK.

Dr Julie Jackson is a freelance science writer, with a background in biology.

Dr Harry Mountain (guest author of Chapter 6) is a Senior Lecturer in molecular biology at Staffordshire University, UK, with a special interest in forensic genetics.

Mr Dan Brearley (guest author of Section 2.5, Chapter 2) has acted as a digital forensics expert witness in many cases heard in the Criminal and Civil Courts over the last eight years.