Chemical Analysis of Firearms, Ammunition, and Gunshot Residue (International Forensic Science and Investigation)By James Smyth Wallace
Publisher: CRC
Number Of Pages: 320
Publication Date: 2008-06-04
ISBN-10 / ASIN: 1420069667
ISBN-13 / EAN: 9781420069662
Binding: Hardcover
Compiling information from the available literature and supplementing gaps with private communications and personal observations and research, this resource summarizes the history of firearms and ammunition as it relates to the development of modern weapons. It details chemical aspects of forensic firearms casework with particular emphasis on the detection of gunshot residues (GSR) on a suspect’s skin and clothing surfaces. Drawing on the extensive experience of the Northern Ireland Forensic Science Laboratory (NIFSL) which processed a large firearms caseload during the region’s recent violent past, this book records the statistics gathered and the scientific methods developed to meet the demands of law enforcement and courts of law.
Summary: So far the best
Rating: 5
At last an excellent book on gunshot residues. In Europe Dr. Wallace is very well known in the forensic family interested in GSR (by the way, in the UK they are called FDR, Firearms Discharge Residues) for his researches on the subject, on ammunition and on primers chemical composition. I have met him several times in Belfast, at the NIFS Laboratory, and I was constantly impressed by his work and by his encyclopaedic knowledge of the topic.
His book apparently was written in two different periods and probably the first part was ready in the early nineteen's and, later, the Particle Classification Scheme has been updated: we cannot but agree with him when, at page 272, the author affirms that "No longer can a 'unique' FDR particle be described as such as they occur from nonfirearms sources."
Two personal remarks. I feel the absence of a paragraph describing the formation of GSP and the absence of a general bibliography.
In my opinion it is an highly recommended book for forensic scientists seriously working on Gunshot Residues.
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