Fly for the Prosecution How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes

Name: Fly for the Prosecution How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes
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ISBN: 9780674007277

ISBN-10: 0674007271

ISBN-13: 9780674007277

Edition: 2000

Authors: M. Lee Goff, Edward O. Wilson

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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 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…

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List price: $30.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 9/1/2001
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 6.38" wide x 9.17" long x 0.52" tall
Weight: 0.748
Language: English

M. Lee Goff is the Coordinator of the Forensic Sciences Program and Professor of Forensic Sciences at Chaminade University of Honolulu.



Prologue: Honolulu, 1984



Beginnings



The Bugs on the Body



The Pigs' Tale



The First Flies



Patterns of Succession



Cover-ups and Concealments



Predators



Air, Fire, and Water



Drugs and Toxins



Coping



Testifying



Spreading the Word


Epilogue: Summing Up


Bibliography


Acknowledgments


Index