Taylor & Francis Ltd

Courtroom Testimony for Fingerprint Examiners addresses all aspects of courtroom testimony as the first book to focus solely on testifying on fingerprint evidence as a comparative science. The book presents how fingerprint examiners can develop, research, and defend the scientific basis of their conclusions.

Addresses cases relating on specific disciplines of forensic science-fingerprints, pathology, ballistics, questioned documents, forensic odontology, forensic biology and DNA, and more-focussing on the judicial interpretation of forensic legal and scientific principles through landmark cases.

Tom acquired a traumatic brain injury aged 22 and took his own life 20 years later. In telling Tom's story, the author- a professional who works with suicidal clients, and Tom's sister- identifies the multiple suicide risk factors, the lack of understanding and inadequate service provision for people with complex needs following TBI.

Women, Inequality and Media Work investigates how women experience gender inequality in film and television production industries.

This volume is the first full-length publication to systematically unpack and analyze the linguistic practices and ideologies of "new speakers" specifically in an Irish language context.

Examines the ethics of higher civil servants in Britain and how they have been undermined by developments in public administration. Focusing on the role of public service, public duty and the public interest in the twenty-first century, this book is of interest to those researching British Politics, Governance, and Public Policy.

Sharing insights of various theoretical perspectives to help understand the complex root causes of children's behaviour, Supporting Positive Behaviour in Early Childhood Settings and Primary Schools highlights key responses that can encourage positive mental health, resilience and behaviour.

Published in 1999, this book is a detailed study combining theoretical material with empirical findings about the personal characteristics, care careers and aftercare experiences of a broad range of young people leaving state care.

The Birth and Death of the Author is a work about the changing nature of authorship as a concept. In eight specialist interventions by a diverse group of international scholars it tells a history of print authorship in a set of author case studies from the fifteenth to the twenty-first century.

In the new edition of The Aging Mind, eminent gerontologist Patrick Rabbitt provides an updated and revised overview of the cognitive changes we experience in the aging process.

Provides a set of practical techniques which have been tried in many of today's leading companies with dramatic improvements to sales performance. This text makes the spin-selling method available in paperback and includes a new preface by the author.