NCJ Number: 182373
Title: Guide to Pathological Evidence for Lawyers and Police Officers, Fourth Edition
Author(s): Frederick A. Jaffe
Date Published: 1999
Page Count: 281
Sponsoring Agency: Carswell/Thomson Professional Publishing
Publication Number: ISBN 0-459-23922-8
Sale Source: Carswell/Thomson Professional Publishing
Type: Instructional Material
Format: Book (Hardbound)
Language: English
Country: Canada
Annotation: Intended for instructing lawyers and police officers in the
evidence-gathering work of forensic pathologists, this book
contains chapters on evidence collection by pathologists in
various types of death investigations, as well as
evidence-collection procedures in various types of crimes.
Abstract: The first chapter provides an overview of the medico-legal
autopsy. Subjects discussed include the signs and diagnosis of
death, post-mortem changes, the role of the attendant, sources of
error, limitations of the autopsy, infection hazards, survival
time, photography and x-rays, and the pathologist's
responsibility. The second chapter outlines the questions
pathologists seek to answer in their examinations, such as are
the remains human, how many individuals the remains represent,
the victim's identity, cause of death, where the death occurred,
the time of death, the date of the injuries, manner of death, and
the reconstruction of an event. A number of chapters address
specific types of death investigations and the particular
procedures performed by the pathologist in these investigations.
These chapters encompass sudden death due to natural causes,
death in a hospital, traffic fatalities ("hit and run"
accidents), poisonings and intoxications, death in water, victims
of fire, the deaths of infants and children, asphyxias, and death
in custody. Other types of investigations pertain to head trauma
and infections, sexual assaults, stabs and cuts, firearm
injuries, skeletal remains, and blood and other body fluids. The
final chapter discusses the role of the defense pathologist. 118
references and a subject index
Main Term(s): Police training resources
Index Term(s): Attorneys; Autopsy; Blood/body fluid analysis; Child fatalities; Custody deaths; Death investigations; Firearms deaths; Forensic pathology; Forensic pathology training; Poisons and poison analysis; Rape investigations; Time of death determination; Wrongful deaths
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