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.

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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.

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Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Foreword
Preface
Editors
Contributors
Introduction
Chapter 1: Crime Scene Investigation
Chapter 2: General Principles of Veterinary Forensic Sciences and Medicine
Chapter 3: Humane Law EnforcementFrom Initial Report to Final Appeal
Chapter 4: Animal Genetic Evidence and DNA Analysis
Chapter 5: Forensic Entomology
Chapter 6: Animal Sexual Abuse
Chapter 7: Blunt Force Trauma
Chapter 8: Sharp Force Trauma
Chapter 9: Gunshot Wounds and Wound Ballistics
Chapter 10: The Forensic Necropsy
Chapter 11: Forensic Veterinary Osteology
Chapter 12: Environmental and Situational Injuries/DeathThermal, Chemical, Electrical, Hyperthermia, Hypothermia, and Drowning
Chapter 13: Animal Fighting and Hoarding
Chapter 14: Veterinary Forensic Toxicology
Chapter 15: Animal Abuse and Interpersonal Violence
Chapter 16: Animal Neglect and Abuse
Chapter 17: Processing Forensic Cases Involving Agricultural Animal Species
Chapter 18: Veterinary Forensic Radiology and Imaging
Chapter 19: Legal Investigations in Shelter Medicine
Chapter 20: Animal Law
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