Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation and Trials

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Description
Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation is
intended to assist the criminal justice system to disseminate real justice. It intends to dispense with the inhumane, immoral and illegal traditional evidential tools:
•   The infamous HI degree methods
•  The parroted versions of the tutored witnesses
•  The police approved statements of the inducted fake approvers
•  The glib tales of the ever available stock-witnesses
•  The dictated confessions from the  accused (criminal or innocent) and
•  The physical fake padding introduced to link the accused with the crimes.
Forensic Science in Criminal Investigation and Trials intends to assist to usher in scientific era. The works make it possible for the handlers of the criminal justice system to understand the potentialities, the limitations and the processes of Forensic Science. The present work is the messiah to inform the concerned how it can be done. The criminal must exchange physical clues with all the entities with which he comes in contact in the commission of crime. It tells how these clues are exchanged, located, collected, preserved, integrity and authenticity maintained, evaluated and compared and how the criminal is interlinked with the victim, with the crime scene, with the weapon of offence, with the vehicle used and the routes and sites visited. It tells how the evidence is presented in courts to make it intelligible and convincing.
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Contents
Chapter 1 - Introduction
Chapter 2 - Crime, Criminal & Criminal Investigation
Chapter 3 - Forensic Science in Trials
Chapter 4 - Scene of Occurrence
Chapter 5 - Fingerprints
Chapter 6 - Track Marks
Chapter 7 - Tool Marks
Chapter 8 - Firearms Forensics
Chapter 9 - Forensic Accountancy & Financial Frauds
Chapter 10 - Documents
Chapter 11 - Poisons & Poisoning
Chapter 12 - Narcotics
Chapter 13 - Alcohol
Chapter 14 - Explosives and Explosions
Chapter 15 - Fires
Chapter 16 - Motor Vehicles
Chapter 17 - Microtraces
Chapter 18 - Hairs
Chapter 19 - Blood
Chapter 20 - Semen & Other Body Fluids
Chapter 21 - DNA Profiling 
Chapter 22 - Forensics Biometrics
Chapter 23 - Death Investigation (Elementary Forensic Medicine)
Chapter 24 - Sexual Offences
Chapter 25 - Computers
Chapter 26 - Computers Forensics (Computer/Cyber Crimes)
Chapter 27 - Digital Image Forensics
Chapter 28 - Cell Phone Forensics
Chapter 29 - Voice Recognition 
Chapter 30 - Forensic Psychology
Chapter 31 - Psychological Detection of Deception (PDD) (Lie Detection)
Chapter 32 - Narco-Analysis Interrogation (Truth Serum Test)
Chapter 33 - Criminal Profiling in Forensics
Chapter 34 - Forensic Anthropology
Chapter 35 - Forensic Odontology
Chapter 36 - Forensic Entomology
Chapter 37 - Case Law [Landmark Judgments]
Subject Index
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Author Details
Dr. B.R. Sharma has his basic education in chemistry. He worked for M.Sc. (Hons.) and Ph. D. in Delhi University Laboratories alter obtaining his B.Sc. (Hons.) degree from Punjab University. Dr. Sharma, just before completion of his Ph.D. degree, was selected as Director, C.I.D. Scientific Laboratory, Punjab at the age of 26. Dr. Sharma has been heading, since then, various Forensic Science Institutions, (State ES.L. in Punjab, Himachal Pradesh, Union Territories; CFSL, (GOL, MHA), Chandigarh, etc.). He retired in September 1993. Dr. Sharma has his rigorous training in documents in Scotland and has been a teacher in Forensic Science for about three decades. His appointments include Honorary Visiting Professor to Punjab University, Guest faculty member to Punjabi University, Patiala, Dr. H.S. Gaur University, Sagar, National Institute of Criminology and Forensic Science, Central Detective Training School and numerous zonal/Regional Staff Training Colleges of various Banks (SBI, PNB, Canara Bank, SBOP, P&S Bank, Former NBI, etc.). Dr. Sharma has done extensive research work. His researches in the identification of initials, digital writings, rubrics and symbols through Natural Variants remains unique piece of research in documents examination. He has guided doctoral thesis research. He has authored in about 100 papers /articles both in Indian and foreign journals. His other works are: Firearms in Criminal Investigation and Trials, Bank Frauds-Prevention and Detection, Footprints Tracks and Trails, Scientific Criminal Investigation, Genie against Crime, etc.