Gunshot Wounds: Practical Aspects of Firearms, Ballistics, and Forensic Techniques (Practical Aspects of Criminal and Forensic Investigations)

Gunshot Wounds provides critical information in the classification of gunshot wounds caused by handguns, rimfire and centerfire weapons, rifles and shotguns, as well as some less common weaponry. Written by one of the country's leading forensic pathologists, this important reference work covers issues concerning small arms fire and forensic pathology, such as basic forensic aspects of ballistics and wound ballistics, the importance of x-rays in autopsy, the detection of gunshot residues, the correct handling of deaths caused by firearms, and suicide by firearms.