ANT205H5 Lecture Notes - Canadian Police Information Centre, Dentistry, Frontal Sinus
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Why is identification important: wills cannot be executed, spouses cannot remarry in certain instances. Identification of a body is helpful for legal reasons. Identification of a body is important because it gives the family of the recovered body closure! 86 % of victims know their killer: homicides are rarely solved if the victim is unknown. Identification starts with a general biological profile including: sex determination , age estimation and ancestry assessment. The determination of these 3 factors will eliminate most of missing people. This will then leave and provide you with a list of potential identities. The police will focus their attention using the missing persons database using the list of potential identities. The computer will recognize points of similarity, assigning point values to matching criteria like age, sex and date missing and then it will produce a threshold score. This indicates how good of a match it is that you have found.
