Shrivastava Pankaj, LorentJ.A., Srivastava A., Badiye A., Kapoor N. (eds.) Textbook of Forensic Science

Springer, 2023. — 839 p. — ISBN 978-981-99-1376-3.This textbook provides essential and fundamental information to modern forensics investigations. It discusses criminalistics and crime scene aspects, including investigation, management, collecting and packaging various types of physical evidence, forwarding, and chain of custody. It presents fundamental principles, ethics, challenges and criticism of forensic sciences and reviews the crime typologies, the correlates of crime, criminology, penology, and victimology. It provides a viewpoint on legal aspects, including types of evidence, the procedure in the court and scrutiny of the evidence and experts.The book summarizes forensic serological evidences such as blood, semen, saliva, milk-tears, sweat, vaginal fluids, urine, and sweat. It also provides an overview of forensic examination of different types of evidence and also includes comprehensive detailing of forensic ballistics including firearm classification, bullet comparison and matching. Further, it explores the examinations of drugs, chemicals, explosives, and petroleum products. It focuses on the various aspects of forensic toxicology, including the study of various poisons/toxins, associated signs and symptoms, a fatal dose /fatal period of poisons.The book also emphasizes digital and cyber forensics, including classification, data recovery tools, encryption and decryption methods, image, and video forensics.It is a useful resource for graduate and post-graduate students in the field of Forensic Science.Crime and Society:​ An Introduction to Criminology
Introduction to Forensic Science
Forensic Science Laboratories in India
Legal Aspects of Forensic Science:​ A Bird’s Eye View
Instruments and Techniques in Forensic Science
Crime Scene Investigation:​ An Introduction
Correlation of Postmortem Changes with Time Since Death
Introduction to Fingerprints
Palmprints:​ An Introduction
Forensic Podiatry:​ An Introduction
Ear Prints in Forensic Science:​ An Introduction
An Introduction to Questioned Documents
Introduction to Forensic Psychology
Essentials of Forensic Physics
Essentials of Forensic Ballistics
Road Accident Investigation
Forensic Biology
Forensic Serology
DNA and Its Significance in Forensic Science
Introduction to Forensic Medicine and Pathology
Forensic Anthropology
Forensic Chemistry
Forensic Toxicology:​ An Overview
Drugs of Abuse:​ Trends and Advanced Analytical Methods
Cyber and Digital Forensic
An Introduction to Biometric Authentication Systems