Light in forensic science issues and applications

434 Pages·2018·22.592 MB·English

by  Miolo, Giorgia, Stair, Jacqueline, Zloh, Mire

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tors, adhesive tapes, textiles, and glass materials with a particular emphasis
on detecting, analysing and interpreting evidence from crime scenes.
This book contains chapters with a review of such approaches, based on
absorption, scattering and reflection of light of different wavelengths, and on
the exploitation of fluorescence and chemiluminescence.
Moreover, the accurate and rapid identification of bacteria using laser irra-
diation via MALDI-TOF MS is widely discussed in a chapter dedicated to this
methodology for detection of biological warfare agents.
Spectroscopic techniques are ideal tools for detecting analytes at trace lev-
els i.e., low concentrations. Microspectrophotometry, Raman spectroscopy,
FTIR spectroscopy, IR-chemical imaging and X-ray fluorescence spectroscopy

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are also discussed as recommended tools to determine the nature, class and
subclass of polymers, such as fibers.
In regards to glass evidence, this has the ability to provide information
not only to link individuals to broken glass items found at a crime scene but
also to help establish what, when and how these were transferred. In this
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Additionally, many synthetic novel psychoactive compounds contain a
stereogenic centre leading to two possible enantiomers, whose pharmaco-
logical potency differs as it is the case for many chiral active pharmaceutical
ingredients. Therefore, the analytical methods for enantioseparation of NPS
by high performance separation techniques (HPLc, capillary electrophoresis,
capillary electrochromatography and supercritical fluid chromatography)
with UV absorption detection is of great forensic interest.
Another chapter is dedicated to hair analysis as a valuable tool in forensic
toxicology to demonstrate drug exposure in the context of facilitated crimes.
Since scalp hair is exposed to sunlight and/or artificial light for many hours
per day; the action of light on hair could alter the content of drugs/illicit
drugs and/or metabolites and the xenobiotics can gradually disappear or be
transformed into other compounds. Thus, light exposure should be consid-
ered as a potential confounder in studies investigating xenobiotics in hair
giving rise to reduced drug concentrations or even false negative results.
Indeed, the second aspect of the light discussed in this book concerns the
degrading effects of light, both induced by the analytical methods employed
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(i.e. UV light breakage of DNA during DNA profiling) or by sunlight when
outdoor samples are collected and then subjected to forensic analyses.
Moreover, the current processes used in the forensic analysis of DNA and
RNA are covered in a selected chapter detailing why light is essential for
detection but also destructive to the template DNA collected during a criminal
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Chapter 6 The Use of Light in Forensic Glass Analysis 143
Claire Gwinnett and Roger Robson
Chapter 7 A Review on Analytical Techniques Used for
Forensic Fiber Analysis 175
Nirvani Mujumdar and Andres D. Campiglia
Chapter 8 Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS) and Recent
Scenarios: Epidemiological, Anthropological and
Clinical Pharmacological Issues 207
J. M. Corkery, L. Orsolini, D. Papanti and F. Schifano

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Edited by Giorgia Miolo, Jacqueline L. Stair and Mire Zloh
© European Society for Photobiology 2018
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