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Vehicle Fraud Detection Using Microscopy

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 March 2018

Joshua J. Kruger
Joshua J. Kruger*
Affiliation:
South African Police Service Forensic Science Laboratory

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In a criminal case, such as vehicle theft or vehicle hijacking, where a vehicle has been dismantled, the forensic scientist is many times faced with the problem of establishing the history of a specific auto body part. The normal method for doing this is by performing paint analysis. There are, however, a few shortcomings to paint analysis. In this paper another technique for determining the history of a body part is discussed, namely the comparison of surface replicas.

Type
Research Article
Information
Microscopy Today , Volume 8 , Issue 6 , August 2000 , pp. 8 - 11
Copyright
Copyright © Microscopy Society of America 2000

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