Contact Dr Karl Harrison
- Email: k.harrison@cranfield.ac.uk
Background
Dr Harrison is the National Forensic Specialist Advisor, within the National Crime Agency's Major Crime Investigation Support team, where he provides advice to all British police forces for the most challenging of major crime scenes. Prior to this appointment, he was one of the UK's foremost operational forensic archaeologists, a founder director of Alecto Forensics and a Reader in Forensic Sciences at Cranfield University.
Current activities
Dr Harrison continues to maintain a research interest in the application of fire investigation techniques to buildings in the archaeological record, an area of research he has pursued at the sites of Çatalhöyük (Turkey), West Stow, Must Farm and Dedoplis (Georgia).
Publications
Articles In Journals
- Giles S, Errickson D, Harrison K & Márquez-Grant N. (2023). Solving the inverse problem of post-mortem interval estimation using Bayesian Belief Networks. Forensic Science International, 342(44927)
- Mary-Jane H, Karl H & David I. (2022). Applying archaeology to fire investigation techniques: A review. Forensic Science International, 341(December)
- Giles SB, Harrison K, Errickson D & Márquez-Grant N. (2020). The effect of seasonality on the application of accumulated degree-days to estimate the early post-mortem interval. Forensic Science International, 315
- Stevenson T, Carr DJ, Harrison K, Critchley R, Gibb IE, .... (2020). Ballistic research techniques: visualizing gunshot wounding patterns. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 134(3)
- Mahoney P, Carr D, Harrison K, McGuire R, Hepper A, .... (2019). Forensic reconstruction of two military combat related shooting incidents using an anatomically correct synthetic skull with a surrogate skin/soft tissue layer. International Journal of Legal Medicine, 133(1)
- Cowper EJ, Mahoney PF, Godhania K, Carr DJ & Harrison K. (2017). A pilot study examining garment severance damage caused by a trained sharp-weapon user. Textile Research Journal, 87(11)
- Abdul‐Karim N, Morgan R, Binions R, Temple T & Harrison K. (2013). The Spatial Distribution of Postblast
RDX Residue: Forensic Implications. Journal of Forensic Sciences, 58(2) - Harrison K. (2012). Crime Scene Investigation (2nd Edition, Fish, Miller & Braswell, Anderson Publication). CBRNe World
- Mitchell JL, Carr DJ, Niven BE, Harrison K & Girvan E. (2012). Physical and mechanical degradation of shirting fabrics in burial conditions. Forensic Science International, 222(1-3)
Conference Papers
- Gulhan O, Harrison K & Kiris A. (2015). A new computer-tomography-based method of sex estimation: Development of Turkish population-specific standards
- Márquez-Grant N, García-Rubio A & Harrison K. (2014). El valor de la arqueologia y la antropologia forense en las operaciones policiales de busqueda de personas desparecidas (The value of archaeology and forensic anthropology in police operations on searching for missing persons)
Books
- Butchart A & Harrison K. (2023). Forensic Garment Analysis In Encyclopedia of Forensic Sciences, Third Edition (2). Elsevier.
- Bishop M, Bull AMJ, Clasper J, Harris M, Harrison K, .... (2022). Analysis of Explosive Events In Bull AMJ, Clasper J & Mahoney PF (eds), Blast Injury Science and Engineering (2nd). Springer International Publishing.
- Harrison K & Ries S. (2017). Chapter Three Fabrics as Forensic Evidence In Forensic Textile Science. Elsevier.
- Harrison K & Cline E. (2017). Case Studies on Taphonomic Variation between Cemetery Burials In Taphonomy of Human Remains: Forensic Analysis of the Dead and the Depositional Environment. Wiley.
- Harrison K & Abdul-Karim N. (2016). Blast Injury Science and Engineering In Bull AMJ, Clasper J & Mahoney PF (eds), Blast Injury Science and Engineering: A Guide for Clinicians and Researchers. Springer International Publishing.
- Harrison K & Abdul-Karim N. (2016). The Examination of Post-blast Scenes In Blast Injury Science and Engineering. Springer International Publishing.
- Harrison K. (2013). Introducing Forensic and Criminal Investigation (as Contributor) In Monckton-Smith J, Hart A, Newberry J & Webb J (eds), Introducing Forensic and Criminal Investigation (1). Sage.
- Harrison K, Martin V & Webster B. (2013). Structural fires In Hodder I(ed.), Substantive technologies at Catalhoyuk : reports from the 2000-2008 seasons (9). Cotsen.
- Harrison K. (2012). Application of fire investigation techniques In Tipper J(ed.), Experimental archaeology and fire: the investigation of a burnt reconstruction at West Stow Anglo-Saxon village (1). English Heritage.
- Harrison K. (2011). The British overseas territories In Marquez Grant N & Fibiger L (eds), The Routledge handbook of archaeological human remains and legislation: an international guide to laws and practice in the excavation and treatment of archaeological human remains. Routledge.