Showing papers in "Science & Justice in 2002"

TL;DR: Some of the important consistencies in commercial burglary behaviour are revealed, which have theoretical value in helping to explain criminal activity and practical value by providing the basis for a diagnostic tool that could be used in comparative case analysis.

TL;DR: The authors find that all modern methods have areas of strength and weakness, and the highest posterior density or the bootstrap provide a better general method, with non-zero theta, for performance.

TL;DR: Analytical findings in a recent death in the UK are described and accidental, suicidal or homicidal poisoning due to the ingestion of plant material remains a possibility and should be borne in mind when investigating sudden or unexplained death.

TL;DR: In this article, the microspectroscopie Raman et infrarouge ont ete compares et classes, selon leur qualite, leur possibilite d'interpreter et l'etendue des caracteristiques visibles.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that a petite proportion of the pyrolyse detectes detectes dans les echantillons brules etaient des pyrotechnics de feu habituels.

TL;DR: Some of the additional personal information that can be derived from the teeth of the deceased, and which may assist in their ultimate identification, are outlined.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors describe the use of numerical models to infer the path of a floating human body in the Ligurian Sea (northwest Mediterranean) during the month of January 2001.

TL;DR: A spectrum of new technologies that utilise new developments in Computer Graphics (CG) and Virtual Reality (VR) for a range of incident investigation and presentation scenarios are introduced.

TL;DR: The transfer and persistence of microscopic size pieces of polyurethane foam onto clothing was studied in this article, where experiments were conducted to try to replicate the transfer of a foam mattress and a vehicle seat onto a victim's clothing with a view to providing information about the elapsed time between her leaving the vehicle and meeting her death.

TL;DR: The DIP has broadened the dimensions of the information offered through the NZ DNA Databank and has furthered the understanding and investigative capability of both Police and forensic scientists.

TL;DR: The authors reiterate their proposal of adopting a likelihood ratio framework justified by the usefulness of the approach in practical context of DNA cases, and underlines the main questions the experts have to answer at trial.

TL;DR: It was found that the amount of TNT picked up by the hair increased with time of vapour exposure and the data suggested that unwashed hair may pick up more TNT than washed hair.

TL;DR: The persistence of fibres depended more on the surface structure and texture of the recipient garment and the location of donor fibres rather than on the type of fibre.

TL;DR: This article discusses a number of questions regarding the setting up of Ballistic fingerprinting databases, consisting of ammunition components fired by all the firearms held in legal possession, and three important arguments are formulated against the installation of a ballistic fingerprinting database.

TL;DR: In this paper, a type de base de donnees de traces de chaussures de crime is defined, i.e., a type of base for the analysis of traces of crime, which comprends les dessins de Chaussures, le temps et le lieu geographique.

TL;DR: In this paper, a pouvoir discriminant des mesures ainsi developpees entre les empreintes de semelle a ete evalue par une experience a laveugle.

TL;DR: Members of the fungal genera Psilocybe and Panaeolus are known to synthesize the controlled compounds psilocin and psilocybin, and under some circumstances it may be necessary to prove that a "preparation" contains fungal material from these genera.

TL;DR: In this article, the problem of identifying fibres of viscose/modal teints in noir is discussed. But the identification of fibres is not a straightforward task.

TL;DR: The relative and absolute amounts of the various cannabinoids in any sample of Cannabis will be dependent not only on the variety of Cannabis grown, but also on the part of the World where it is grown and its growing conditions.

TL;DR: The authors conclude that it was not possible to predict 'acute' opiate intoxication deaths versus 'delayed' deaths when the only information available is heart and peripheral blood free morphine concentrations.

TL;DR: All the available evidence concerning the attack, and the one or more explosions that occurred, is summarised and the conclusions regarding the torpedo effects and the most likely causes of the secondary events are reported.