Legal Medicine: Criminalistics and Identification

Legal Medicine · Clinical Bases

How it begins

Tratado exhaustivo de la ciencia del indicio y de la identificación humana: principios, escena del crimen, cadena de custodia, dactiloscopia, ADN, odontología y antropología forense, balística, documentoscopia, hematología y reconstrucción de la identidad.

What it covers

1. Introduction to Criminalistics
2. · Areas of criminology
3. Scientific Principles of Criminalistics
4. · The seven fundamental principles
5. The Crime Scene and its Processing
6. · Scene classification
7. · Processing methodology
8. · Methods for searching for clues
9. Indicia and Material Evidence
10. · Classification of signs
11. Chain of Custody
12. · Elements that you must document
13. Medical-Legal Identification: Concept and Methods
14. · Classification of identification methods
15. Dactyloscopy and Lophoscopy
16. · Systems and classification
17. · Minutiae: individualization
18. · Latent prints and their development
19. Forensic Genetics: DNA
20. · Types of DNA in forensic analysis
21. · Genetic analysis flow
22. Forensic Dentistry
23. · Identification applications
24. · Other contributions
25. Forensic Anthropology
26. · The biological profile: the four big questions
27. · Complementary tasks of the anthropologist
28. Facial Reconstruction and Superposition
29. Identification of Living Persons
30. · Forensic age estimation in vivo
31. · Other scenarios
32. Forensic Hematology and Serology
33. · Study of blood stains
34. · Stain Pattern Analysis (BPA)
35. Other Biological Indications
36. Forensic Ballistics
37. · Identifying ballistics (comparison)
38. · The shot and the distance
39. Documentoscopy and Graphics
40. · Graphics / Calligraphic expertise
41. · Technical documentary expertise
42. Hairs, Fibers and Vestiges of Transfer
43. · Other physical remains
44. Integrative Synthesis
45. · Hierarchy of identifying value