Introduction / Douglas H. Ubelaker -- General forensics: no one else starts until we finish / Julie Howe, Janet Barber Duval, Claire Shepard and Robert Gaffney -- Criminalistics: the bedrock of forensic science / Susan Ballou, Max Houck, Jay A. Siegel, Cecelia A. Crouse, John J. Lentini and Skip Palenik -- Forensic pathology: the roles of molecular diagnostics and radiology at autopsy: James R. Gill, Yingying Tang, Gregory G. Davis, H. Theodore Harcke and Edward L. Mazuchowski -- The places we will go: paths forward in forensic anthropology / Dawnie Wolfe Steadman -- Forensic toxicology: scope, challenges, future directions and needs / Barry K. Logan and Jeri D. Ropero-Miller -- Odontology: dentistry's contribution to truth and justice / Iain A. Pretty, Robert Barsley, C. Michael Bowers, Mary Bush, Peter Bush, John Clement, Robert Dorion, Adam Freeman, Jim Lewis, David Senn and Frank Wright -- Forensic psychiatry and forensic psychology / Stephen B. Billick and Daniel A. Martell -- Forensic document examination / William M. Riordan, Judith A. Gustafson, Mary P. Fitzgerald and Jane A. Lewis -- Digital evolution: history, challenges and future directions for the digital and multimedia sciences section / David W. Baker, Samuel I. Brothers, Zeno J. Geradts, Douglas S. Lacey, Kara L. Nance, Daniel J. Ryan, John E. Sammons and Peter Stephenson -- Global thinking and methodologies in evidence-based forensic engineering science / Laura L. Liptai, Adam Aleksander, Scott Grainger, Sarah Hainsworth, Ryan Loomba and Jan Unarski -- Jurisprudence / ARW Forrest and RT Kennedy -- Global forensic science and the search for the dead and missing from armed conflict: the perspective of the International Committee of the Red Cross / Morris Tidball-Binz -- Forensic systems and forensic research: an international perspective / DN Vieira -- Summary and conclusions / Douglas H. Ubelaker.