Wound Ballistics: Basics and Applications - Brossura

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ISBN 10: 3662648571 ISBN 13: 9783662648575

Casa editrice: Springer Nature, 2023

Riassunto

The definitive interdisciplinary reference work for wound ballistics

Basics

The book begins by providing the necessary basic knowledge about physics, ballistics and ammunition and weapons. Then it describes the behaviour of projectiles in humans and animals (the physics of gunshot injuries) and introduces the experimental simulation of gunshot wounds, including the materials suitable for this purpose.

Applications

These basic principles can be applied in forensic medicine and criminalistics. The gunshot wound provides some forensic traces and the experimental reconstruction helps to understand the dynamic crime process. The wounding potential of non-lethal weapons can be determined.

In emergency and war surgery, injuries caused by small arms bullets and fragments as well as by gas jets (of gas weapons) can be assessed.

International conventions could be freed from undefined terms (such as “unnecessary suffering”) with the help of physical quantities.

Reference work

Detailed tables as e. g. ballistic data of numerous cartridge types, also older ones, material properties, as well as many otherwise difficult to access data and a trilingual glossary of ballistic and technical terms in the languages German, English and French.

NEW

Wound Ballistics of European Police ammunition

References to recent research results

Partly coloured illustrations

Due to the increase in terrorist and criminal activities worldwide, it is not only members of the armed forces who are affected. Surgeons, forensic doctors, police officers and criminalists also need to know and be able to assess the specifics of gunshot wounds.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Beat P. Kneubuehl
Dr. sc. forens., MD h. c., M.Sc. in Mathematics
Director
bpk consultancy gmbh
CH  Thun

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The definitive interdisciplinary reference work for wound ballistics

Basics

The book begins by providing the necessary basic knowledge about physics, ballistics and ammunition and weapons. Then it describes the behaviour of projectiles in humans and animals (the physics of gunshot injuries) and introduces the experimental simulation of gunshot wounds, including the materials suitable for this purpose.

Applications

These basic principles can be applied in forensic medicine and criminalistics. The gunshot wound provides some forensic traces and the experimental reconstruction helps to understand the dynamic crime process. The wounding potential of non-lethal weapons can be determined.

In emergency and war surgery, injuries caused by small arms bullets and fragments as well as by gas jets (of gas weapons) can be assessed.

International conventions could be freed from undefined terms (such as “unnecessary suffering”) with the help of physical quantities.

Reference work

Detailed tables as e. g. ballistic data of numerous cartridge types, also older ones, material properties, as well as many otherwise difficult to access data and a trilingual glossary of ballistic and technical terms in the languages German, English and French.

NEW

Wound Ballistics of European Police ammunition

References to recent research results

Partly coloured illustrations

Due to the increase in terrorist and criminal activities worldwide, it is not only members of the armed forces who are affected. Surgeons, forensic doctors, police officers and criminalists also need to know and be able to assess the specifics of gunshot wounds.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Springer Nature
• Data di pubblicazione: 2023
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 3662648571
• ISBN 13: 9783662648575
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 2
• Numero di pagine: 544
• Redattore: Kneubuehl Beat P.
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