Forensic Research: Why Do Bodies Tell Stories?

The coroners investigate the bodies the police tell them to go to and find what killed them. What these people do is break down the body and try to match weapons to what did the crime. They do this to bring justice for the love ones family and friends.

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

Biological explanations in forensic psychology have provided much advancement in understanding criminal behaviour. These advancements have resulted in biological interventions being implemented in order to reduce crime and reoffending. The interventions that are currently used will be evaluated throughout this essay in relation to their effectiveness as a means of intervention. Firstly, the long term effects of being under malnourished in regards to criminal behaviour will be discussed and then an intervention will be analysed in regards to supplementation of vitamins to prisoners. This essay will then go on to discuss how effective malnutrition interventions are in general and suggest improvements. This will lead on to an explanation of the consequences of under malnourished pregnant women and the negative effect this could have on their unborn child in their future. Implementations to educate under malnourished parents will be analysed in regards to the long term anti-social behaviours of their children. This essay will then start investigating early enrichment programmes in relation to greater skin conductance amplitude and slow wave EEG and the effects of this implementation will be thoroughly analysed. Lastly, a combination of the two implementations mentioned throughout this essay – under malnourishment and early enrichment programmes – will be examined and analysed in relation to criminal behaviour.

The way a tomb is constructed, the way the body is disposed of and the artefacts placed with it all combine to give us an insight into the

In the book, Stiff, by Mary Roach I have discovered a lot. This book is all about the sciences and studies of cadavers or dead bodies. I have discovered a lot from this book. In the next few paragraphs I will explain some of the main points I have learned.

After collecting all of the evidence taking to the forensic lab and analysis the evidence that was collect. When a body come to the lab , the pathologist would” conduct a post-mortem”, examining the body and looking at its external appearance to help identification to determine how the person died, looking for evidence of blows to the body, looking at the size and shape of the wound. Then the pathologist would start a surgical procedures to study the internal organs, (like bruising of the brain, damage to the heart and blood vessels looking for evidence of disease as a cause of death, heart attack, stroke, aneurysm, or infection. Checking the stomach content also if a person is murder or rape then pathologist would take samples under finger nails , sample of semen from vaginal”( Elvidge,

In this exposition, 3 girls were tied up against their will and drowned in Tampa Bay. Forensic anthropologist and autopsy reports came back that they had been in the ocean for about three days, but weren’t deposited off the shoreline, they were driven out into the middle of the bay and thrown out. The investigator says it wasn’t a murder, but an execution.. Investigators went out and asked near them, where the father and the husband of these girls had been during the time these girls had gone missing. Furthermore, they went looking for the mother’s car and found notes in her vehicle, they found a note that had directions to the hotel also the boat ramp 25 miles from the boat ramp. They sent the notes to a forensic handwriting analysis, the

When they mean dead men can’t tell any tales they mean as in the can’t talk to anyone. The dead people can’t verbally talk to anyone, because their dead. Dead people can not just wake and start talking about things, it’s just not possible. They might not be able to talk, but there bodies can show what happened. Like in the story “Case Study: The Case of the Missing Leg” (page 12/28 in forensic anthropology article Identifying the Victim) it states that both of the legs they had found that were blown off from the explosion, they were both women but one was white and one was black. Then they found out a little later then when they buried the legs to the people they buried it to the wrong person. They really found out a lot more about the women

In modern day, with all types of technology, there are numerous ways for an individual to die, whether it was a suicide, homicide, an accident or it was simply their time. One way to help recognize signs for causes of death was determined by William Bass. In 1980, Bass started the ‘Body Farm’ behind the University of Tennessee, it was where human bodies would be placed, so him and his graduate students could observe decomposition closely (Text 2017: page 180). They started off with issues such as: how long it would take for a body to become skeletonized, as well as determining if a body was moved since it died (Text 2017: page 180). To relate Bass’ work to modern day, if I were to conduct a study at the ‘Body Farm’ I would want to find out the difference between a body that was thrown off the top of a 30-storey apartment building and a body that was beaten to death.

They placed the bodies in a variety of different conditions like with/without clothes, in/out of water, inside/outside a car etc. Many of the bodies in the farm have been donated by families of the victims, or the bodies are unclaimed. Here they have learned how to cross examine decomposing bodies with the climate, and learned how different stages of decomposition relates back to the time of death. The hair mat or the area where the hair falls off of the body usually falls between five to nine days after death. When it comes to the bones of a body, the gender of a body can be found by looking at the skull.

This book was probably one of the most interesting yet disturbing book that I have ever read. The process of getting cadavers to study has not only been extremely difficult throughout the years, but it has also tested the morales of many people. Whether its stealing people from the grave, or even hiring hit men to kill for you just so you can have a fresh body. In my paper I am going to talk about the topics that really it me, and that I either found really intriguing or disturbing.

Again, while there is no one standard protocol for forensic interviews with children suspected of being victims, there are aspects of interviews which are highly recommended. For example, it has been found that giving interview instructions during the rapport-building phase of a forensic interview tends to lead to more accurate and complete information. Newlin and her associates (2015) point out that such interview instructions as “Only talk about things that really happened” are valuable.

Dead men tell tales because their bones can be used to tell how they died. The bones can also tell, how old, what gender, and what race the victim was. The bones are a big part of finding out how a person died by looking at medical records, mostly X-rays of the victim. They look for dental records for a victim if they think they had some sort of dental records. The forensic anthropologist looks for marks on the would represent, such as healed breaks, fractures, bone disease, surgical marks, amputations, bone abnormalities, and arthritis. Investigators look for surgical appliances, such as pacemakers, artificial hips, false teeth, and metal plates and pins. The best chance to identify a person would be the skull. Though dead men can’t tell you

The dead can tell tales even when they are dead because their bones/remains tell stories about them, the way they were and when they were alive and stuff like that. The bones of some remains can tell a lot of things. One of the things that a skeleton can inform people of is when and how the person died. The bones leave evidence that tell if the person was murdered or however they died based on the conditions of their bones now. They can also tell when they died by the condition of their bones. The skeleton can also let us know how old that person was when he or she died. A couple of signs that let a person know how hold someone was by looking at their remains is by looking at their teeth. The teeth let the forensic anthropologist know is the

For once in my life I may as well tell the truth. You would think as a seventeen year old applying to college I could unscramble my thoughts into somewhat of a cohesive manner. Maybe the truth is I am not the individual I want to be. Maybe my entire life my actions have not been entirely my own. Ever since I was young I have allowed other people’s opinions and expectations influence me. That is supposed to be a good thing, right? Well in my case I let those influences completely take over me and tell me who I should be. I suppose that is why I am so indecisive. It is probably why I am such a good listener. I have always been in the background so vulnerable to the noise. I can never differentiate between something I have done being because of