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Forensic Entomology deals with the use of insects and other
arthropods in medico legal investigations. We are sure that many
people know this or a similar definition, maybe even already read a
scientific or popular book dealing with this topic. So, do we
really need another book on Forensic Entomology? The answer is 13,
29, 31, 38, and 61. These are not some golden bingo numbers, but an
excerpt of the increasing amount of annual publications in the
current decade dealing with Forensic Entomology. Comparing them
with 89 articles which were published d- ing the 1990s it
illustrates the growing interest in this very special intersection
of Forensic Science and Entomology and clearly underlines the
statement: Yes, we need this book because Forensic Entomology is on
the move with so many new things happening every year. One of the
most attractive features of Forensic Entomology is that it is
multid- ciplinary. There is almost no branch in natural science
which cannot find its field of activity here. The chapters included
in this book highlight this variety of researches and would like to
give the impetus for future work, improving the dev- opment of
Forensic Entomology, which is clearly needed by the scientific com-
nity. On its way to the courtrooms of the world this discipline
needs a sound and serious scientific background to receive the
acceptance it deserves.
Forensic Entomology deals with the use of insects and other
arthropods in medico legal investigations. We are sure that many
people know this or a similar definition, maybe even already read a
scientific or popular book dealing with this topic. So, do we
really need another book on Forensic Entomology? The answer is 13,
29, 31, 38, and 61. These are not some golden bingo numbers, but an
excerpt of the increasing amount of annual publications in the
current decade dealing with Forensic Entomology. Comparing them
with 89 articles which were published d- ing the 1990s it
illustrates the growing interest in this very special intersection
of Forensic Science and Entomology and clearly underlines the
statement: Yes, we need this book because Forensic Entomology is on
the move with so many new things happening every year. One of the
most attractive features of Forensic Entomology is that it is
multid- ciplinary. There is almost no branch in natural science
which cannot find its field of activity here. The chapters included
in this book highlight this variety of researches and would like to
give the impetus for future work, improving the dev- opment of
Forensic Entomology, which is clearly needed by the scientific com-
nity. On its way to the courtrooms of the world this discipline
needs a sound and serious scientific background to receive the
acceptance it deserves.
THE FORENSIC ENTOMOLOGIST turns a dispassionate, analytic eye on
scenes from which most people would recoil -- human corpses in
various stages of decay, usually the remains of people who have met
a premature end through accident or mayhem. To M. Lee Goff and his
fellow forensic entomologists, each body recovered at a crime scene
is an ecosystem, a unique microenvironment colonized in succession
by a diverse array of flies, beetles, mites, spiders, and other
arthropods: some using the body to provision their young, some
feeding directly on the tissues and by-products of decay, and still
others preying on the scavengers. Using actual cases on which he
has consulted, Goff shows how knowledge of these insects and their
habits allows forensic entomologists to furnish investigators with
crucial evidence about crimes. Even when a body has been reduced to
a skeleton, insect evidence can often provide the only available
estimate of the post-mortem interval, or time elapsed since death,
as well as clues to whether the body has been moved from the
original crime scene, and whether drugs have contributed to the
death. An experienced forensic investigator who regularly advises
law enforcement agencies in the United States and abroad, Goff is
uniquely qualified to tell the fascinating if unsettling story of
the development and practice of forensic entomology.
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