ANTHROP 3FA3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 14: Forensic Anthropology, Coroner, Radiography
14 Mar 2016
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Personal identi cation: process of linking an unknown personal object or material (skeleton, ngerprint biological. Uid, etc. ) back to an individual of known identity legal matter; nal determination of identity is made by a legal authority. Local medicolegal authority is responsible for the identi cation of deceased individuals usually a medical examiner or coroner, justice of the peace or sheriff; becomes of cial with the signing of the individuals death certi cate. Done through contextual circumstances, investigative information and the results of scienti c comparisons such as ngerprints, dna, dental records or anthropological examinations (no legal or scienti c threshold for con rming or rejecting an identi cation) Systems and terms associated with the strength of an identi cation (tentative, presumptive, probable or positive identi cation) Tentative or presumptive identi cations are those based on associations with personal effects (drivers license) but require at least some additional investigation to con rm whether the remains actually belong to that person.
