Veterinary Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences
By Jason H. Byrd, Patricia Norris and Nancy Bradley-Siemens
While there are several recent books on this emerging field, Veterinary Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences sets the bar, covering all relevant aspects in a succinct, easy-to-read, comprehensive format designed to be taught in a single-semester course. Intended to be the premier textbook on veterinary forensic sciences, the book covers the application of veterinary forensic medicine to cases, including the medical perspective as well as law enforcement response, crime scene management, and evidence recovery issues.
Coverage includes the scientific and legal principles for veterinary forensic evidence. This clearly delineates it from veterinary-only practices, since the forensic aspects present additional challenges that include evidence recovery and preservation, report writing, and maintaining an evidentiary chain of custody, all the way through expert witness testimony. Some emerging topics that are covered include DNA and genetic evidence, entomological evidence in support of veterinary forensics, animal fighting, situational deaths, including poisonings, domestic violence, and cruelty, sharp and blunt force trauma, gunshot and wound ballistics, sexual assault, nonhuman odontology and osteology, and more.　
Features
Details a process for forensic science case management for humane law enforcement agencies
Presents multiple chapters on specific types of trauma analysis in animals
Provides developments on current trends in forensic entomology as applied to wildlife crime and minimum postmortem interval determinations
Explores national and international considerations in combating organized animal fighting
Offers DNA applications for wildlife crime and environmental monitoring
Outlines current animal and environmental forensic toxicology legal casework
This text offers a straightforward presentation of current practices and includes several real-world case examples throughout to illustrate concepts. Fully illustrated with more than 280 full-color images, Veterinary Forensic Medicine and Forensic Sciences provides the latest in advances and up-to-date field techniques, applicable for student instruction in the classroom and beyond.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1. Animal Crime Scene Investigation
Chapter 2. Humane Law Enforcement: From Initial Report to Final Appeal
Chapter 3. Animal Genetic Evidence and DNA Analysis
Chapter 4. Forensic Entomology
Chapter 5. Animal Bitemarks: Evidence and Application
Chapter 6. Animal Sexual Assault
Chapter 7. Blunt Force Trauma
Chapter 8. Sharp Force Trauma.
Chapter 9. Gunshot Wounds and Wound Ballistics
Chapter 10. Non-Human Forensic Osteology.
Chapter 11. Environmental and Situational Deaths (Chemical, Thermal, Drownings)
Chapter 12. The Forensic Application of Animal Behavior Analysis
Chapter 13. Animal Fighting
Chapter 14. Animal Poisonings
Chapter 15. Domestic Violence and Animal Abuse
