Children and guns: The detection of recent contact with firearms on children's hands by the PDT reagent

Karni L. Bar-Or; Joseph Almog

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.05.008

Children and guns: The detection of recent contact with firearms on children's hands by the PDT reagent

Karni L. Bar-Or, Joseph Almog^*

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Institute of Chemistry

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Abstract

Throughout the world, young children are worryingly found to be involved in both unintentional and intentional gun violence, rendering the forensic investigation of gun handling by children a highly important matter. The effectiveness of the PDT reaction for mapping iron traces on hands of children has been tested and compared to its application on adults. Counter-intuitively, children were found to produce considerably more intense PDT impressions than adults. A plausible explanation which is based on physiological differences between children and adolescents is suggested.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	43-47
Number of pages	5
Journal	Forensic Science International
Volume	253
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2015.05.008
State	Published - 1 Aug 2015

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Keywords

Ferroprint™
Firearms
Iron complexation
Palmar sweat
Pyridyldiphenyl triazine (PDT)
Trace metal detection (TMDT)

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