Topic: Crime Scene Investigation
Resource: Scientific Journals
Record Upload Date: February 19, 2008
Author: Joseph Almog
Title: Forensic Science Does Not Start in the Lab: The Concept of Diagnostic Field Tests
Journal citation: 51 J. Forensic Sci. 1228; Journal of Forensic Sciences, Issue 6
Date: November 2006
URL: http://www.blackwell-synergy.com/toc/jfo/51/6
Notes Comments:

This article discusses old and new forensic field tests that could enhance the quality of evidence submitted to labs for analysis and protect the integrity of evidence that by its nature deteriorates rapidly.

Material examined by the National Academy of Sciences Committee on Identifying the Needs of the Forensic Sciences Community. (code nascinfsc)