A Comprehensive Study of Criminal Toxicology

Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives offers health care providers, investigators and attorneys a comprehensive look at the history, employment and ex post facto analysis of criminal poisoning.

Drawing on the vast expertise of the authors—law enforcement agents and physicians with robust experience in the realm of criminal poisoning—Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives covers the illegal use of poisons to harm people and the methods of detection available to investigators and prosecutors.

Each chapter covers a specific toxin, from acids and herbals to drugs of abuse, and includes a case study that explains the diagnostic challenges associated with detecting and prosecuting a criminal poisoning. What’s more, the book delves into who may poison—including the psychological factors that motivate someone to kill—and who may be a likely victim.

Criminal Poisoning: Clinical and Forensic Perspectives is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between medical practitioners and law enforcement agents, delivering the definitive resource for professionals on the topic.

Key features include:

• Information on unique toxins not discussed in other books, such as dioxin or trichothecene mycotoxin
• Both the clinical and forensic approaches to investigating criminal poisoning
• Illustrated text with in-depth descriptions of poisons including delivery, toxicology, detection and clinical effects

Chapter  1  History of Criminal Poisoning
Chapter  2  Poisoners and Their Relationship with Victims: The Need for an Evidence-Based Understanding
Chapter  3  Evaluating a Potential Criminal Poisoning
Chapter  4  Acids & Alkalis
Chapter  5  Animals
Chapter  6  Arsenic
Chapter  7  Botulism
Chapter  8  Cyanide
Chapter  9  Dioxin
Chapter  10  Drugs of Abuse
Chapter  11  Gamma Hydroxybutyrate
Chapter  12  Hypoglycemics
Chapter  13  Neuromuscular Blocking Agents
Chapter  14  Opioids
Chapter  15  Organophosphates (Nerve Agents)
Chapter  16  Plants & Herbals
Chapter  17  Potassium
Chapter  18  Quinuclidinyl Benzilate (QNB)
Chapter  19  Saxitoxin
Chapter  20  Sedative-Hypnotics
Chapter  21  Sodium Monofluoroacetate
Chapter  22  Strychnine
Chapter  23  Thallium
Chapter  24  Toxalbumins
Chapter  25  Trichothecene Mycotoxins
Chapter  26  Medical Serial Killers
Chapter  27  Munchausen by Proxy
Chapter  28  Drug Facilitated Sexual Assault