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Factors that prompt death to occur
Stop of respiration and Circulation |
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| can cause of death be determined by a Forensic Anthroplogist? |
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| What are the five mannors of death? |
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Homicide
Suicide
Accident
Natural
Unkown |
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| Who esthablishes a mannor of death? |
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| only an M.E. or a Coroner |
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| What is a greenstick fracture? |
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| a fracture that bends the bone but barely breaks it |
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| In whom are Greenstick Fractures most common? |
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What are the two types of fratcure lines? |
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Which fracture lines are the most common? |
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What are the patterns of a radiating fracture line? |
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Disperse outward from point of impact |
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| What fracture lines are formed from the impact of a high velocity projectile? |
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What is another name for Concentric Facture lines? |
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What are the distinguishing features of concentric fracture lines? |
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| they form rings around the point of impact |
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Which fracture lines are more proximal to the point of impact? |
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What are the three determining factors of force as told by trauma? |
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speed of force
direction of force
focus of force |
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| The nature of a break depends on what? |
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| The direction from which the force impacts the bone |
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Dynamic force is what kind of force speed? |
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Sudden stress, delivered powerfully and at a high speed |
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What type of trauma are Blunt Sharp and Ballistic traumas? |
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What is defined as static speed of force trauma? |
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Breaking of the hyoid bone during strangulation is an example of what type of force? |
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Force Delivered to a large area of bone is defined of what kind of force focus? |
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Force delivered to a single point of thin line is what type of focus of force trauma? |
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| What are the defining characteristics of postmortem bone injures? |
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No difference in color
no radiating fracture lines
and usually at a right angle |
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What are the characteristics of perimortem bone injury? |
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green bone response
color connutinity
radiatting fracture lines
Sharp irregular edges |
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| What are the markers for Antemortem Bone Injury? |
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new bone growth
smooth edges
callus |
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At what speed does blunt force trauma occur?
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What are the characteristics of sharp force trauma? |
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straight lines
or
incision lines |
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What does sharp-blunt trauma present as? |
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Sharp force trauma at the point of impact
and blunt raiating out from that |
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[image]
Is this an entrance wound or an exit wound? |
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[image]
Is this an entrance or an exit wound? |
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| what is burned bone called? |
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What are Proliferative lesions? |
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What can cause Defromative lesions? |
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Which lesion type looks like moss growing on bone? |
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What is Stewarts method of assessing handedness? |
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| identify the side with the largest most modified arm bones |
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| Two Dimensional facial reconstrcution is done in what medium? |
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| evidence that provides a fact directly |
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| what is indirect evidence? |
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| evidence that provides a fact that leads to another fact |
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| small often microscopic evidence |
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| how is transfer evidence created? |
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| when two items come in contact with each other |
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What are the five types of crime scene photos needed? |
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location
witness/overall
mid range
close up
Evidence |
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What do witness or overal photos generally show? |
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crime scene condtions
and
items in relavence to one another |
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What do Mid-Range photos show? |
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| small items of evidence slightly closer but still at somewhat of a distance |
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Which crime scene photos supply as much detail as possible? |
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| Why aren't photos enough? |
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| Sketches or maps contain measurements and if a body is present measurements are taken from two fixed points |
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| What shouldn't we use to macerate? |
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| What is a good way to sort bones from a mass burial? |
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group like bones
group like sized bones
group like sided bones
group fused vs. unfused epihasyes
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| What are the three ways of calculating Minimum number of individuals? |
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1.Max (L,R)—sort elements and take largest number as MNI
2.(L+R)/2 –average of paired elements provides most minimal estimates
3.L+R- pairs provides a higher estimate because unpaired bones from different sides are assumed to come from different indviduals
What is the problem with the L+R-pairs calculation variation?
Unpaired bones from different sides are assumed to come from different indvidulas |
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| How can we tell human bone from non human bone? |
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| Hysteological examinations |
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| How can we tell a Forensic burial from an Archological site? |
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State of preservation
intternment
Body modifications
personal effects
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What are seven compounents to look for to tell the state of preservation? |
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Color
Texture
Hydration
Weight
Condition
Fragility
Soft Tissue presence |
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What can bleach bones white? |
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| A fresh bone would be what color? |
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| yellowish-white or yellowish brown |
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When bones change color in the ground what is this termed? |
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What appears on fresh bones in addition to yellow appearance? |
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If a bone appears wet but not greasy what does that speak to? |
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| a wet enviroment but not nessicarally age |
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What process causes bones to become lighter? |
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Definition
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| what process causes bone to become heavier? |
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Contempoaryskeltal remains tend to be more or less intact? |
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| What is an expert witness? |
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| A witness who can be supeaoned to appear in court and testify as a leader in a particular field |
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| Who decides who qualifies as an expert? |
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| What was the frye ruling? |
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| A court ruling that said if a method is genrally accepted by the scientic commuinty it is admissable in court |
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| when was the Frye ruling? |
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| In what year did congress attempted to formally standardize federal trial procedures? |
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| What did FROE702 suspend? |
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| Why did FROE702 suspend the frye test? |
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to impose stricter guidelines
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What are the five criteria an FRE 702 case needs to pass? |
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1.Validation of expert witness
2.Responsibility for testing admissibility falls to the judge
3.Testimony based on sufficent facts
4.Testimony product of reliable principles and methods
5.Witness has applied methods reliably to the case |
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| When was the Daubert case? |
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| what standard supsended the frye rule? |
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| What criteria must scientific experts meet? |
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1. testablity
2. errore rate
3. peer review
4.The degree of application and acceptance within the scientific commuinty |
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| What did the Kumho case add to the Daubert standard? |
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| Technology if something is new but relaible it is admissiable |
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what needs to be improved for forensic anthropology to be up to Daubert standards? |
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research standards
Quanative v. Qulatative
Inter v. Intra observational
error rates |
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What makes evidence inadmissible? |
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unreliable evidence
Prejidce evidence
hearsay
unnesscairy evidence
unreliable evidence |
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