Forensic odontology (dental forensics) can provide useful evidence in both criminal and civil cases, and therefore remains a part of the wider discipline of forensic science. As an example from the toolbox of forensic odontology, the practice and experience on bitemark analysis is reviewed here in brief. The principle of using visible bitemarks in crime victims or in other objects as evidence i...

Forensic DNA Applications: An Interdisciplinary Perspective (2014; Edited by Dragan Primorac and Moses Schanfield. CRC Press, Taylor Francis Group. 23 Chapters, 621 pages) is intended for different types of audiences interested in forensic medicine. It could be both a textbook for forensic molecular biology students and a reference book for practitioners of forensic molecular biology. Moreover ...

Wildlife DNA forensics is an applied field that has emerged from a synthesis of conservation genetic research and forensic genetic practice to meet the increasing need for investigative tools in wildlife law enforcement. This review describes the principal technologies and applications available to wildlife forensic geneticists, focussing on the four most common casework questions: What species...

We present a statistical model for incorporating the extra variability in allelic counts due to subpopulation structures. In forensic genetics, this effect is modelled by the identical-by-descent parameter θ, which measures the relationship between pairs of alleles within a population relative to the relationship of alleles between populations (Weir, 2007). In our statistical approach, we demon...

The contemporary media provides a plethora of images of science and scientific practice. These often revolve around forensic technologies and the potential they offer in the investigation of crime. Whereas there are numerous accounts of the perceptions of these technologies and their uses by specific interested parties, from police personnel through to juries, this book is the first of its kind...

DNA fingerprinting, one of the great discoveries of the late 20 th century, has revolutionized forensic investigations. The DNA molecule became the most powerful single tool in the multifaceted fight against crime. DNA analysis led to the exoneration of suspects and identification of victims of crimes, accidents and disasters. The review gives an outline of different and recent technologies in ...

Languages shared by people differs due to diversity in their ethnicity, socioeconomic status, gender, language, religion, sexual orientation, geographical area, accents, pronunciation and word usages. This eventually fall into hypothesis that they follow unknown hidden pattern. By using this hypothesis, determining the class of a person such as age, gender, their personality and nativity has mu...