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Chemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence /

Chemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence provides readers with the fundamental framework of forensic analytical chemistry, describing the entire process, from crime scene investigation to evidence sampling, laboratory analysis, quality aspects, and reporting and testifying in court.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Asten, Arian van
Corporate Author: ScienceDirect (Online service)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Amsterdam, Netherlands ; Oxford, United Kingdom ; Cambridge, MA : Elsevier, [2023]
Subjects:
Chemistry, Forensic.
Analytical chemistry.
Forensic sciences.
Forensic Sciences
Chemistry Techniques, Analytical
Chimie légale.
Chimie analytique.
Criminalistique.
chemical analysis.
forensic science.
Analytical chemistry
Chemistry, Forensic
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Front Cover
  • Chemical Analysis for Forensic Evidence
  • Chemical Analysis for: Forensic Evidence
  • Copyright
  • Contents
  • About the author
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgments
  • Disclaimer:
  • Reader guideline
  • Learning objectives
  • 1
  • An introduction to forensic analytical chemistry
  • 1.1 What will you learn?
  • 1.2 Definitions
  • 1.3 Questions of interest to a legal system
  • 1.4 Forensic science principles
  • Further reading
  • 2
  • Analytical chemistry in the forensic laboratory
  • 2.1 What will you learn?
  • 2.2 Analytical chemistry in the forensic laboratory
  • 2.3 Forensic expertise areas
  • Illicit drugs
  • Forensic toxicology
  • Fire debris and ignitable liquids analysis
  • Explosions and explosives
  • Microtraces: gunhot residues
  • Microtraces: glass, paint, and fibers
  • Forensic environmental investigations
  • Fingermarks
  • Questioned documents
  • Crime scene investigation
  • Further reading
  • 3
  • Sampling and sample preparation
  • 3.1 What will you learn?
  • 3.2 Sampling and sample preparation in analytical chemistry
  • 3.3 Statistical sampling protocols: how many samples do we analyze?
  • 3.4 Sample preparation: ignitable liquid residue sampling in fire debris analysis
  • Further reading
  • 4
  • Qualitative analysis and the selectivity dilemma
  • 4.1 What will you learn?
  • 4.2 Qualitative analysis in forensic chemistry
  • 4.3 Chemical identification of illicit drugs
  • 4.4 The NPS challenge: addressing the selectivity dilemma
  • Further reading
  • 5- Quantitative analysis and the legal limit dilemma
  • 5.1 What will you learn?
  • 5.2 Quantitative analysis in forensic chemistry
  • 5.3 Forensic toxicology: trace level quantitation of small molecules in complex biomatrices
  • Single quad mass spectrometer
  • Ion trap mass spectrometer
  • Triple quad mass spectrometer
  • Time of flight mass spectrometer
  • Orbitrap mass spectrometer
  • Hyphenated systems
  • Sample preparation
  • LC separation
  • MS analysis
  • 5.4 Measurement uncertainty: addressing the legal limit dilemma
  • 6
  • Chemical profiling, databases, and evidential value
  • 6.1 What will you learn?
  • 6.2 Criminalistics is the science of individualization
  • 6.3 A chemical impurity profiling method for the organic explosive TNT
  • 6.4 Bayes theory and the likelihood ratio
  • 6.5 Building a score-based model for the forensic comparison of chemical impurity profiles
  • Further reading
  • 7
  • Forensic reconstruction through chemical analysis
  • 7.1 What will you learn?
  • 7.2 Forensic explosives investigation
  • 7.3 Isotope ratio mass spectrometry (IRMS)
  • 7.4 Chemical profiling and synthesis reconstruction of TATP with IRMS
  • 7.5 Human provenancing: you are what you eat and drink
  • Further reading
  • 8
  • From data to forensic insight using chemometrics
  • 8.1 What will you learn?
  • 8.2 Library match scores and ROC curves