KINDS OF DEATH FIVE CATEGORIES OF DEATH

 NATURAL CAUSES
 HOMICIDE
1. SOMATIC DEATH OR CLINICAL  UNDETERMINED
DEATH  SUICIDE
- STATE OF THE BODY IN WHICH THERE  ACCIDENT
IS COMPLETE, PERSISTENT AND
CONTINUOUS CESSATION OF THE VITAL
FUNCTIONS OF THE BRAIN
EXAMPLES OF SPECIAL
CRIME
2. MOLECULAR OR CELLULAR DEATH HOMICIDE
- VITAL FUNCTIONS OF THE BODY THERE
- MURDER
IS STILL LIFE AMONG INDIVIDUAL CELLS
- ABORTION
- RAPE
3. APPARENT DEATH OR SUSPENDED - ROBBERY
ANIMATION - CARNAPPING
- THIS CONDITION IS NOT REALLY DEATH
- KIDNAPPING
BUT MERELY A TRANSIENT LOSS OF - BOMBING
CONSIOUSNESS - ARSON

TWO TYPES OF THIEF CATCHERS

1. HIRELINGS
2. SOCIAL CLIMBERS

THE THREE BRIDGES IN HOMICIDE

INVESTIGATION
1. IS THE BODY HAS BEEN MOVED
2. IS WHEN THE CADAVER HAS BEEN
EMBALMED
3. IS WHEN THE DEAD PERSON IS
BURNED OR CREMATED
RESPONSIBILITIES OF SPECIAL POST MORTEM EXAMINATION
CRIME INVESTIGATOR
- IS THE CURSORY
EXAMINATION OF THE
DEAD BODY BY THE
1. DETERMINE IF THE CRIME HAS
MEDIC-LEGAL OFFICER
BEEN COMMITTED
AT THE CRIME SCENE
2. VERIFY JURISDICTION
3. DISCOVER ALL THE FACTS AND
CAUSE OF DEATH
COLLECT PHYSICAL EVIDENCE
- THE SPECIFIC INJURY OR
4. RECOVER STOLEN PROPERTY
DISEASE THAT LEADS TO
5. IDENTIFY THE PERPETRATOR DEATH
6. LOCATE AND APREHEND
PERPETRATOR
MANNER OF DEATH
7. AID IN THE PROSECUTION AT
- IS THE DETERMINATION
THE PERPETRATOR
OF HOW THE INJURY OR
8. TESTIFY EFFECTIVELY IN COURT DISEASE LEADS TO
DEATH

AUTOPSY
SPOUSE ABUSE
- IS THE PROCESS BY
WHICH THE PATHOLOGIST - REFERS TO A BATTERY
OR THE MEDIC-LEGAL COMMITTED BY ONE
OFFICER CONDUCTS AN MARRIED PARTNER ON
EXAMINATION ON THE THE OTHER
CADAVER TO DETERMINE
THE EXACT CAUSE OF
DEATH. IT IS MORE DOMESTIC ABUSE
DETAILED
- MAY TAKE THE FORM OF
A CONFLICT BETWEEN
MARRIED PERSONS
LEGAL MEDICINE
- IS A BRANCH OF
MEDICINE THAT DEALS
WITH THE APPLICATION
OF MEDICAL
KNOWLEDGE TO THE
PURPOSES OF LAW AND
IN THE ADMINISTRATION
OF JUSTCE

AUTOPSY
- PROCESS OF THE
PATHOLOGIST OR THE
MEDIC-LEGAL OFFICER
CONDUCTS AN
EXAMINATION ON THE
CADAVER TO DETERMINE
THE EXACT CAUSE OF
DEATH

CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION

- MULTIDISCIPLINARY AND
INVOLVES A SYSTEMATIC
SEARCH OF THE CRIME
SCENE; MOLECULAR
OBSERVATION AND
DOCUMENTATION OF THE
SCENE