Table of Contents:
  • Forensic science education : perspective / Ralph F. Turner
  • Some critical personnel policies in forensic science / William Fox
  • Educators in forensic science : the men in the middle / W.W. McGee
  • An introductory forensic science course in a law enforcement program / Richard Saferstein and Robert Epstein
  • Graduate education and research in forensic chemistry at Northeastern University / Barry L. Karger, James M. Parker, Bill C. Giessen, and Geoffrey Davies
  • LEAA's forensic science research program / Joseph L. Peterson
  • The application of materials science methods to forensic problems : principles, serial number recovery, and paper identification / Bill C. Giessen, Donald E. Polk, and James A.W. Barnard
  • Examples of SEM analyses in forensic evidence applications / John Sabo, Gary Judd, and Stark Ferriss
  • Recent developments in bullet search systems / Al Johnson
  • Progress in firearm residue detection / Edgars Rudzitis and Morris A. Wahlgren
  • A comparison of neutron activation analysis and atomic absorption spectroscopy on gunshot residue / W.D. Kinard and D.R. Lundy
  • Recovery and identification of residues of flammable liquids from suspected arson debris / Cecil E. Yates, Jr.
  • Forensic applications of differential scanning calorimetry / Jesse H. Hall and Bruce Cassel
  • Ink analysis : a weapon against crime by detection of fraud / Richard L. Brunelle and A.A. Cantu
  • Forensic bloodstains and physiological fluid analysis / W.C. Stuver, Robert C. Shaler, Peter M. Marone, and Ralph Plankenhorn
  • Effect of environmental factors on starch gel electrophoretic patterns of human erythrocyte acid phosphatase / Cornelius G. Mcwright, James J. Kearney, and James L. Mudd
  • Forensic toxicology : the current state of the art and relationship to analytical chemistry / Bryan S. Finkle
  • A comparison of heroin samples / S.P. Sobol and A.R. Sperling
  • New applications of photoluminescence techniques for forensic science / Peter F. Jones.