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Forensic sciences

Here are entered works on science as applied in courts of law or in criminal investigations.

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• Science

• Criminal investigation

• Forensic sciences -- Periodicals
• Forensic sciences -- Standards
• Forensic sciences -- United States
• Chemistry, Forensic
• Forensic archaeology
• Forensic ballistics
• Forensic biology
• Forensic psychology
• Image analysis
• Medical jurisprudence

• Criminalistics
• Forensic science

• Human Remains and Identification: Mass Violence, Genocide and the "Forensic Turn" (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2015), ed. by Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett and Jean-Marc Dreyfus (PDF with commentary at oapen.org)

• Journal of Forensic Sciences (partial serial archives)

• Human Remains and Violence (full serial archives)

• Journal of Forensic Sciences (partial serial archives)

• Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)

• Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)
• Strengthening Forensic Science in the United States: A Path Forward (2009), by National Research Council Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Science Community (multiple formats at NAP)

• Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1996), by Edward F. Connors, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller, and J. Thomas McEwen (page images at HathiTrust)

• Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission Report on the Jefferson-Hemings Matter (2001), by Jefferson-Hemings Scholars Commission
  • PDF files at waybackmachine.org
  • PDF files at archive.org

• Forensic Analysis: Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence (2004), by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Forensic Analysis: Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence (2004), by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Forensic Analysis: Weighing Bullet Lead Evidence (2004), by National Research Council Board on Chemical Sciences and Technology (HTML and page images at NAP)

• Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• DNA Technology in Forensic Science (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Genetic Witness: Forensic Uses of DNA Tests (1990), by United States Congress Office of Technology Assessment
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF files at Princeton

• DNA Technology in Forensic Science (1992), by National Research Council Commission on Life Sciences (page images with commentary at NAP)

• Advancing Justice Through DNA Technology Act of 2003: Report (Rept. 108-321 Part 1; no further parts known to be published; 2003), by United States House Committee on the Judiciary
  • text and PDF at congress.gov
  • page images at HathiTrust

• Ensuring the Effective Use of DNA Evidence to Solve Rape Cases Nationwide: Hearing Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, One Hundred Eleventh Congress, First Session, December 15, 2009 (Washington: GPO, 2010), by United States Senate Committee on the Judiciary (page images at HathiTrust)
• Forensic Science in Criminal Courts: Ensuring Scientific Validity of Feature-Comparison Methods (2016), by President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (U.S.) (PDF at whitehouse.gov)

• Convicted by Juries, Exonerated by Science: Case Studies in the Use of DNA Evidence to Establish Innocence After Trial (Washington: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice, 1996), by Edward F. Connors, Thomas Lundregan, Neal Miller, and J. Thomas McEwen (page images at HathiTrust)

• On the Witness Stand: Essays on Psychology and Crime, by Hugo Münsterberg (HTML at York)

• Pathological Lying, Accusation, and Swindling: A Study in Forensic Psychology (Criminal Science Monograph #1; 1915), by William Healy and Mary Tenney Healy (Gutenberg text)

• A General Analytical Solution to the Problem of Photogrammetry (declassified report originally distributed from Aberdeen Proving Ground, MD: Ballistic Research Laboratories, 1959), by Hellmut H. Schmid (PDF with commentary at dtic.mil)
• Die Photogrammetrie, oder Bildmesskunst (in German; Weimar: Verlag der Deutschen Photographen-Zeitung, 1889), by Carl Koppe
  • page images in Switzerland
  • multiple formats in Germany
• Die Photographische Messkunst: oder, Photogrammetrie, Bildmesskunst, Phototopographie (in German; Halle: Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp, 1892), by Franz Schiffner (multiple formats at archive.org)
• La Métrophotographie (in French; Paris: Gauthier-Villars, 1899), by A. Laussedat (page images and PDF at cnam.fr)
• Photogrammetrie und Internationale Wolkenmessung (in German; Braunschweig: Druck und Verlag von Friedrich Vieweg und Sohn, 1896), by Carl Koppe
  • multiple formats at Google; US access only
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • multiple formats at archive.org; some marginal text cropped
• Sommaire de Photogrammétrie: Application Élémentaire de la Photographie à l'Architecture, à la Topographie, aux Observations Scientifiques et aux Opérations Militaires (in French; Paris: Société d'Éditions Scientifiques, 1891), by V. Legros (page images in France)

• Photographic Surveying, Including the Elements of Descriptive Geometry and Perspective (Ottawa: Government Printing Bureau, 1895), by É. Deville (multiple formats at archive.org)
• Die Photogrammetrie, oder Bildmesskunst (in German; Weimar: Verlag der Deutschen Photographen-Zeitung, 1889), by Carl Koppe
  • page images in Switzerland
  • multiple formats in Germany
• Die Photographische Messkunst: oder, Photogrammetrie, Bildmesskunst, Phototopographie (in German; Halle: Verlag von Wilhelm Knapp, 1892), by Franz Schiffner (multiple formats at archive.org)

• Identifying Plant Food Cells in Gastric Contents For Use in Forensic Investigations: A Laboratory Manual (Washington: National Institute of Justice, 1988), by Jane H. Bock, Meredith A. Lane, and David O. Norris
  • page images at HathiTrust
  • PDF at ncjrs.gov
• The Principles and Practice of Medical Jurisprudence (second edition, 2 volumes; Philadelphia: H. C. Lea, 1873), by Alfred Swaine Taylor
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
• A Text-Book of Legal Medicine and Toxicology (2 volumes; Philadelphia and London: W. B. Saunders and Co., 1903-1904), ed. by Frederick Peterson and Walter S. Haines
  • Volume I: multiple formats at archive.org
  • Volume II: multiple formats at archive.org
  • both volumes: page images at HathiTrust; US access only

• Human Remains and Mass Violence: Methodological Approaches (Manchester, UK: Manchester University Press, 2014), ed. by Jean-Marc Dreyfus and Élisabeth Gessat-Anstett (PDF with commenary at oapen.org)

• Des Maladies Mentales, Considérées Sous les Rapports Médical, Hygiénique et Médico-Légal (2 text volumes and an atlas, in French; Paris and London: J.-B. Ballière, 1838), by Etienne Esquirol (page images at HathiTrust)

• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (ca. 2008), by National Institute of Mental Health (U.S.) (HTML and PDF with commentary at NIH)
• Combat and Operational Behavioral Health (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; Falls Church, VA: Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army; Fort Detrick, MD: Borden Institute, 2011), ed. by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• Leaders' Manual for Combat Stress Control (FM 22-51, 1994), by United States Army (HTML at army.mil)

• Sergeant Back Again (30th anniversary edition, c2009), by Charles A. Coleman (HTML and PDF with commentary at sergeantbackagain.com)

• Cadaverland: Inventing a Pathology of Catastrophe for Holocaust Survival: The Limits of Medical Knowledge and Historical Memory in France (Waltham, MA: Brandeis University Press, c2009), by Michael Dorland
  • PDF at Brandeis
  • PDF files at Project MUSE

• Invisible Wounds of War: Psychological and Cognitive Injuries, Their Consequences, and Services to Assist Recovery (2008), ed. by Terri L. Tanielian and Lisa Jaycox (PDF with commentary at rand.org)

• War Psychiatry (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; 1995), ed. by Franklin D. Jones, Linette R. Sparacino, Victoria L. Wilcox, Joseph M. Rothberg, and James W. Stokes (PDF files at Borden Institute)
• Shell Shock and Its Lessons (1917), by Grafton Elliot Smith and T. H. Pear
  • HTML at gwpda.org
  • HTML at vlib.us

• The Return of the Soldier (New York: The Century Co., 1918), by Rebecca West (illustrated HTML at Celebration of Women Writers)

• Combat and Operational Behavioral Health (from the Textbooks of Military Medicine series; Falls Church, VA: Office of The Surgeon General, United States Army; Fort Detrick, MD: Borden Institute, 2011), ed. by Elspeth Cameron Ritchie (PDF files at Borden Institute)

• Men Under Stress (Philadelphia: Blakiston, 1945), by Roy R. Grinker and John P. Spiegel (page images at HathiTrust)

Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.

• Istanbul Protocol: Manual on the Effective Investigation and Documentation of Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (2004), by United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (PDF at ohchr.org)
• Crime's Nemesis (New York: Macmillan, 1936), by Luke S. May (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Man Hunters (New York: J. H. Sears and Co., c1926), by Melville Davisson Post, illust. by William D. I. Arnold (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)

More items available under broader and related terms at left.