This new edition includes updated material, better visual images, and many new photographs relating to decomposition, autopsy techniques, various injuries, violent asphyxial deaths, and snake and scorpion poisoning. Recent topics like the Protection of Children from Sexual Offences Act, 2012, and recent changes in the criminal law in relation to rape, sexual deviations, penetrating sexual assault, and acid attacks have been incorporated. Other topics of current importance like body farming, virtual autopsy, narcoanalysis, hair dye poisoning, new plant poisons like brasinolide, and khat abuse have been added.