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Publications

Books, Encyclopaedia chapters and presentations

Fitzpatrick R.W. (2011) Getting the dirt: The value of soil in criminal investigations. Gazette, Vol. 73, No 1, pp. 22-23. A Royal Canadian Mounted Police Publication. (PDF, 772 kB)
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Fitzpatrick Rob and Mark Raven (2010). Soil Science Support for Environmental Crime Investigations. Presentation to the 16th International Forensic Science Symposium, Interpol General Secretariat Lyon, France 5-8 October 2010, Thematic session on Environmental Crime:

Fitzpatrick RW (2009) Soil: Forensic Analysis. In Wiley Encyclopedia of Forensic Science (Editors-In-Chief: A Jamieson and A Moenssens). John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex, PO19 8SQ, United Kingdom.  pp. 2377–2388. http://mrw.interscience.wiley.com/emrw/9780470061589/home/
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Fitzpatrick R.W. (Editor) (2006). Proceedings of the “First International Workshop on Criminal and Environmental Forensics”, Perth, May. Centre for Australian Forensic Soil Science

Fitzpatrick, R.W. (2008). Nature, distribution and origin of soil materials in the forensic comparison of soils. In: Soil analysis in forensic taphonomy: chemical and biological effects of buried human remains” (Eds. M. Tibbett and D.O. Carter). pp. 1-28. CRC Press, Boca Raton, FL.

Fitzpatrick Rob, Mark Raven and Sean Forrester (2008). A Criminal Case Study Involving Transference of Acid Sulfate Soils from a Crime Scene to Forensic Evidence. In Inland Acid Sulfate Soil Systems Across Australia (Eds. R.W. Fitzpatrick and P Shand). pp 151-161. CRC LEME Open File Report No. 249. (Thematic Volume) CRC LEME, Perth, Australia.

Fitzpatrick R.W., M.D. Raven and S.T. Forrester (2009) A Systematic Approach to Soil Forensics: Criminal Case Studies Involving Transference from Crime Scene to Forensic Evidence. In Criminal and Environmental Soil Forensics (Eds. K. Ritz, L. Dawson, D. Miller) pp. 105-127. Springer Science+Business Media B.V.

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