Criminal Forensic Science

A detailed Summary of Criminal Forensic Science

Criminal forensic pathologists are the individuals responsible for taking charge at a scene of a crime featuring cadavers that have met an untimely and usually violent end.

This person is normally responsible for "determining how, when and why of any death which is the result of violence, suspicious or unexplained circumstance or a death with is sudden or unattended, defending and explaining the reasons for making these diagnosis in a courtroom" (Campobasso 2001, pg 133).

This individual must coordinate all the other professionals also at the scene and ensure that not only do they do their respective jobs but that each professional does not interfere with any of the other professionals.

"The forensic pathologist normally has the legal authority to take charge of the dead body at a death scene and his primary functions are the exterior and interior examination of the cadaver by analyzing the extent of ante-mortem injuries and the postmortem changes and the recovery of physical evidence," (Campobasso 2001, pg 132).

With this responsibility also comes the need to not only maintain what is happening in the forensic science field but also to learn about all the new technology and methods of extracting eviden

The study showed that by using this particular camera at a very high speed the injuries inflicted to this model wer fully comparable to the morphology of equivalent real gunshot entrance wounds.

Another new advance which pertains to photographic advances is called image fusion. "Image fusion is a process of combining two or more images into an image, it can extract feature from source images, and provide more information than one image can" (Wen 2004, pg 217).

"The application of techniques devised recently in forensic entomology can allow experts in the field to collect strong entomological evidence and provide useful information not only in a death investigation....but even more in child neglect, sexual molestation and identification of suspects" (Campobasso 2001, pg 136).

This paper will attempt to address some of those new techniques especially concerning the use of forensic photography to unearth and record evidence in ever more creative ways.

This method is supported by CAD and it also plays an important role when a detailed 3-D reconstruction (not related to dental) is needed. In a study conducted by Michael Thali, a series of photographs were taken of a soft-tissue injury to the face. The injury was caused by being run over by an automobile. The objects had to be series photographed and then evaluated with Rolle/Metric multi-image evaluation system. "This system measures and calculates the spatial location of point shown in the photo sequences, then creates 3-D data models of the objects" (Thali 2000, pg 281). The created data models are then compared against the tire treads to confirm a match. It is evident that this type of new technology can be very effective, providing

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