Past NIJ Workshops

View the agendas, presentations and presenter bio's of past NIJ workshops hosted by Radford University's Forensic Science Institute.

July 2012

July 2011

May 2011

July 2010

May 2010


Additional Readings

Forensic Anthropology
American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Bass WM  (1996)  Human Osteology: A Laboratory and Field Manual (4th ed.).  Columbia Missouri: Missouri Archaeological Society.

Bass WM  (2003)  Death’s Acre: Inside the Legendary Forensic Lab, the Body Farm, Where Dead Men Do Tell Tales.  New York: Berkley Books.

Beckett RG and Conlogue G (2010)  Paleoimaging; Field Applications for Cultural Remains and Artifacts.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Burns K  (1999)  Forensic Anthropology Training Manual.  Upper Saddle River, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall.

Byers SN  (2008)  Introduction to Forensic Anthropology (3rd ed.).  Boston: Pearson.

Fairgrieve SI (2008)  Forensic Cremation: Recovery and Analysis.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Fairgrieve SI  (1999)  Forensic Osteological Analysis: A Book of Case Studies.  Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.

Fairgrieve SI and Oost TS  (2001)  Human Skeletal Anatomy Laboratory Manual and Workbook.  Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.

Galloway A  (1999) Broken Bones: Anthropological Analysis of Blunt Force Trauma. Springfield, Illinois: Charles C. Thomas.

Haglund WD and Sorg MH  (1997)  Forensic Taphonomy: The Postmortem Fate of Human Remains.  Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Haglund WD and Sorg MH  (2001)  Advances in Forensic Taphonomy: Method, Theory and Archaeological Perspectives.  Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Journal of Forensic Sciences

Katzenberg MA and Saunders SR (2000)  Biological Anthropology of the Human Skeleton.  New York: Wiley-Liss.

Kimmerle EH and Baraybar JP  (2008)  Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting From Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Klepinger LL  (2006)  Fundamentals of Forensic Anthropology.  Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons.

Kollmann D (2007)  Never Suck A Dead Man’s Hand: Curious Adventures of a CSI.  New York: Kensington Publishing Corp.

Krogman WM and Iscan MY  (1986)  The Human Skeleton in Forensic Medicine (2nd ed.).  Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas.

Mann R and Williamson ME  (2006)  Forensic Detective: How I Cracked The World’s Toughest Cases.  New York: Ballantine Books.

Micozzi MS  (1990)  Postmortem Changes in Human and Animal Remains.  Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas.

Nafte M  (2000)  Flesh and Bone:  An Introduction to Forensic Anthropology.  Durham, North Carolina: Carolina Academic Press.

Pickering RB and Bachman DC  (2009)  The Use of Forensic Anthropology (2nd ed.).  Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Rathbun TA and Buikstra DC (1984)  Human Identification: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology.  Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas.

Redsicker DR (2000)  The Practical Methodology of Forensic Photography (2nd ed.).  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Reichs KJ  (1986)  Forensic Osteology: Advances in the Identification of Human Remains.  Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas.

Rhine S  (1998)  Bone Voyage: A Journey in Forensic Anthropology.  Albuquerque, New Mexico: University of New Mexico Press.

Schmitt A, Cunha E, and Pinheiro J  (2006)  Forensic Anthropology and Medicine: Complementary Sciences From Recovery to Cause of Death.  Totowa, N. J.: Humana Press.

Schmitt CW, Symes SA (eds.)  (2008)  The Analysis of Burned Human Remains.  Amsterdam: Elsevier Press.

Steadman DW  (2003)  Hard Evidence: Case Studies in Forensic Anthropology.  Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.

Stewart TD  (1979)  Essentials of Forensic Anthropology.  Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas.

Stinson PG  (1997)  Forensic Dentistry.  Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Taylor KT  (2000)  Forensic Art and Illustration.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Thompson T and Black S (eds)  Forensic Human Identification: An Introduction.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Ubelaker DH and Scammel H  (1992)  Bones, A Forensic Detective’s Casebook.  New York: Harper Collins.

Warren MW, Walsh-Haney HA, and Freas LE (eds.)  (2008)  The Forensic Anthropology Laboratory.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Forensic Archaeology

Boddington A, Garland AN, Janaway RC (1997)  Death, decay, and reconstruction:  approaches to archaeology and forensic science.  Manchester: Manchester University Press.

Chainey S, Ratcliffe J (2005)  GIS and crime mapping.  Chichester, England: John Wiley. 

Dupras TL, Schultz JJ, Wheeler SM, and Williams LJ  (2006)  Forensic Recovery of Human Remains: Archaeological Approaches.  Boca Raton: CRC Press.

Killiam EW  (2004)  The Detection of Human Remains (2nd ed.).  Springfield, Ill.: Charles C. Thomas.

Sorg MH, Rebmann A, Edward D.  Cadaver dog handbook: forensic training and tactics for recovery of human remains.  Boca Raton: FL:  CRC Press.  2000.

Thomas DH (1999)  Archaeology: down to earth (2nd ed.).  Fort Worth: Harcourt Brace.

Tibbett M and Carter DO (eds.)  (2008)  Soil Analysis in Forensic Taphonomy: Chemical and  Biological Effects of Buried Human Remains.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Ubelaker  DH (1989)  Human skeletal remains: excavation, analysis, interpretation.  Washington, D. C.: Taraxacum.

Forensic Entomology

Byrd JH and Castner JL  (2010)  Forensic Entomology: The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigation (2nd ed.).  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.

Goff ML  (2000)  A Fly for the Prosecution: How Insect Evidence Helps Solve Crimes.  Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Jackson S (2002)  No Stone Unturned: The True Story of NecroSearch International, the World’s Premier Forensic Investigators.  Kensington Books.

Forensic Pathology

Catanese CA (ed.)  (2010)  Color Atlas of Forensic Medicine and Pathology.  Boca Raton, FL: CRC Press.