Identification of cadavers and skeleton findings

73 IDENTIFICATION OF CORPSES AND SKELETAL FINDINGS SUMMARY The reason for my research is favour in criminology and criminal law on the whole. The thesis is composed of six chapters and introduction and conclusion. Chapter One is named Forensic medicine and this chapter is divided into two parts. Part One is introductory and defines basic terminology used in the Forensic medicine, for example natural death, violent death, time of death, post - mortem changes, etc. Part Two describes inspection of a body, judicial autopsy, health autopsy. Chapter Two deals with inspection and the work of police officers on the place of finding body, further on coronerʼs inquest. Then I deal with Individual identification methods. Chapter Three is the identification of persons according to in the external features. The main features are for example race, sex, age, color of skin, body height, blood group, DNA analysis. The supporting characters are for example hair color, body weight. Chapter Four is named Dactyloscopy and it deals with examining of fingerprints, palms of the hand and soles of foot. An example of the criminal police practise is described in this chapter. Chapter Five deals with Criminal biology.The chapter is subdivided into three subchapters. Subchapter One deals with biological material of human, animal and..