Terminal Ballistics: A Text and Atlas of Gunshot Wounds is a comprehensive guide that explains the science of forensic ballistics - focusing on the hardware, injury patterns, and forensic techniques associated with gunshot wounds. The text begins by describing the anatomy and design of basic firearms and the fundamental components of ammunition rou
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Acknowledgments
- Author
- Contributor
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Anatomy of Handguns, Rifles, and Shotguns
- Chapter 2: Smooth Bore (Shotgun) Ammunition
- Chapter 3: Handgun Ammunition
- Chapter 4: Centerfire Rifle Ammunition
- Chapter 5: The .22 Rimfire
- Chapter 6: Propellants
- Chapter 7: "Pathological" Range of Fire
- Chapter 8: The .22 Rimfire Projectile
- Chapter 9: Handgun Injury Patterns
- Chapter 10: Centerfire Rifle Injury Patterns
- Chapter 11: Shotgun Injury Patterns
- Chapter 12: Black Powder Firearms
- Chapter 13: Injuries from Air Pistols and Air Rifles
- Chapter 14: Nail Gun Injuries
- Chapter 15: The Intermediary Target, Atypical Wounds, and Miscellaneous Gunshot Injury Patterns
- Chapter 16: Illegal Modification of Firearms and Home-Made Weapons
- Chapter 17: Bone Injury, the Skull, and the Concept of Beveling
- Chapter 18: The Internal Organs
- Chapter 19: The Mimics of Gunshot Injury - Injuries in Life and Postmortem Artefacts
- Chapter 20: Exit Wounds
- Chapter 21: Management of the Gunshot Wound Surgical Resection Specimen
- Chapter 22: Gunshot Residue Sampling and the Ballistics Expert
- Chapter 23: Radiology
- Chapter 24: The Gunshot Homicide - The Crime Scene
- Chapter 25: The Gunshot Homicide - The Autopsy and Report
- Chapter 26: Photographing Gunshot Injuries
- Chapter 27: Forensic Entomology as Applied to Gunshot Injury
- Chapter 28: Field Work in a Theater of War - Human Rights
- Glossary
- Key Texts
- Index
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