Fingerprints, Dental, And Dna Reference Material

Law enforcement agencies have relied on forensic art as one of their investigation methods for many years. The job of a forensic artist is quite difficult because he or she must reconstruct an image of an individual based on just hearsay and memory from another individual. The purpose of this study is to research forensic artists, also known as sketch artists, and their ability to draw up a suspect through the information provided by a witness. Interviews on two different forensic artists provide insight of the duties and hardships a law enforcement sketch artist takes on. The process of how law enforcement sketch artists are able to recreate the face of another individual, and how that picture can be a very useful piece of evidence for crime reports will also be addressed throughout the study. This study is relevant to anthropology because it touches on how how an individual perceives those around them and forensics itself is also one of the key topics discussed in biological anthropology.

Forensic scientists can identify the body through dental records, DNA samples or if the fingers are intact, fingerprints.

After that they “analyze bones to determine the victim's biological profile” as it is said in “What is Forensic Anthropology” by R.U. Steinberg.

Forensic anthropologist examine skeletal remains for elements of a skeleton that can give clues to the person it belongs to. The Kennewick man’s skeleton was found in surprisingly good condition meaning the damage to the skeleton was done in his life, not due to deterioration. The skeleton showed a projectile point lodged in his hip, five broken ribs that did not properly heal, two small dents in his skull, and a bum shoulder. These wounds show an insight to the lifestyle

After finding some skeletal remains, the police have provided a list of three missing persons, Kim Lee, Theresa Woods and Jonathan Parker. While spending multiple days in the lab, plenty of information was collected to help with the identification of the bones, such as the sex of the victim, the age of the victim and the approximate height and race of the victim. This data was compiled to draw a conclusion and safely identify the remains.

As a forensic anthropologist, Brennan main focus is to assist law enforcement agencies with her knowledge to inspect skeletons. Her main motive in this case was to determine individual 's age, sex, time of death, and physical condition from their skeleton remains. It is extremely crucial that Brennan diagnoses the skeleton remains accurately, as the legal investigation greatly depends on it. Brennan refers to multiple biological anthropology methods while she was assessing

I read the book “Fingerprints and talking bones” written by Charlotte Foltz Jones. I choose to read this book because in the introduction it has been told that every criminal takes something but always leaves a clue that can lead the detectives right to him.As an example it can be said that”every mystery of a crime can be solved by any piece of evidence left no matter how small or big”.I also choose this book because it has everything about evidence that leads to a concluding point to the text.

One morning a couple was out jogging when they stumbled upon human remains. A decision was made to bring in the forensic anthropologist team. To bring light to this mysterious death several things had to occur. Firstly the forensic team had to analyze features of bone to determine as much as possible, that includes; the person’s gender, ethnic origin, age, and height.

One of the first steps taken by an anthropologist to identify a victim is to analyze the bones and construct a biological profile. Correspondingly, a biological profile is the sex,age at death,height,race,injuries,and diseases that may have left marks on the bone.For example, in the text it states,”Several parts of the skelton give clues to age, the structure of the skull,teeth….he pelvis and skull are the easiest to and most accurate to determine sex.” This

This becomes a challenge for forensic anthropologists, as missing body parts means that a full skeletal analysis cannot take place. Although there are other mechanisms, besides dismemberment, by which remains from one decedent could be in different locations (such as a dog scavenging the remains), dismemberment can be identified by the visual analysis of saw, axe, or knife marks at the ends of the dismembered bones. To aid the visibility of these marks, it is recommended that a mold and cast of the incisions be made before analysis. Many studies have been conducted that allow anthropologists to determine the blade width, shape, and the direction of the cut by the visual examination of the bones (Byers, 2011). History of cases concerning dismemberment of remains has also shown that the cut marks associated with it will cluster around attachment sites for ligaments or tendons (Buikstra and Ubelaker,

Anthropologists help with identifying human remains by constructing a biological profile. They do this by estimating age, sex, stature, and ancestry, as well as identifying other characteristics such as diseases and injuries (Anđelinović et al. 2005). The anthropologists also analyze injuries that happened around the time of a person’s death which can determine the cause of death (Allmäe, Limbo-Simovart 2015). To learn these things, some questions need to be asked, such as: is it a bone? Is it human? Which bones are present? How many people are represented? Are the remains modern or

Another common method for identifying dead bodies is dental comparison. This method is especially valuable for decedents who are not visually identifiable and are not able to be identified by fingerprint comparison. Like fingerprint comparison, dental identification requires a pre-existing dental records (ante-mortem record) [44]. If these records are accessible for comparison, a positive identity can be set up, as distinctive configurations of the bony structures of the jaw, roots of the teeth and adjacent sinuses frequently exist and are unique for every individual [45].

It is assumed that everyone’s dentitions are unique to everyone. Forensic Odontology consists of applying dental knowledge to criminal and civil law cases, in identifying a potential suspect whose dentitions were left on a victim, deceased or alive through a bite mark. Human identification in forensic odontology consists of identifying a deceased victim through dental records and DNA from teeth that were possibly found at a possible crime scene. The teeth are then compared to dental data for a possible match of who’s identity the teeth may belong to (Franco, 2015). Many times, the use of Forensic Odontology identification is useful for identification purposes of those victims who suffered death due to a natural disaster. Human bite marks can be found on the skin of a living or deceased victim, adult or child, victim or

Estimating the age at time of death from an unidentified individual’s remains is an important factor of forensic anthropology. There are certain standard processes and procedures that are employed in the lab to help determine the age as well as other biological profile data. In young adults, bone and tooth maturation are often used to roughly estimate the age of the body. In adults, the deterioration of bones is used to predict the age of the unknown body.

Magnetic resonance imaging has the potential of totally replacing computed tomography. If history was rewritten, and CT invented after MRI, nobody would bother to pursue CT. --Philip Drew (Mattson and Simon, 1996)