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Age estimation in the living : the practitioner's guide

This text is the first of its kind in the relatively new arena of forensic evaluation of age in the living. It summarizes and explains the main approaches to age estimation in the living, defining when a parameter may be of use and raising awareness of its limitations. The text is very practise focussed and summarises experience-based approaches from a variety of cultural and jurisdictional perspectives. The aim of the text is also to ensure that practitioners do not use it as a ‘cook book’ approach but reinforces that they must have a full and realistic appreciation of human variation (at both individual and ethnic ancestral levels) which must be conveyed to the court accurately and appropriately. This text also encourages practitioners to recognise when an assessment is beyond their area of expertise or beyond verification depending upon the clinical data available. Each key approach to age evaluation has been allotted a single chapter, written by an international leader in the particular field and brought together by a strong and highly respected international team.