Forensic Science- Death Investigation QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS

Forensic Science: Death Investigation |\ |\ |\ |\




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What are the two U.S. systems of death investigation? - CORRECT
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ANSWERS ✔✔Coroner and Medical Examiner
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Coroner - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Elected
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-No medical knowledge/training necessary
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-Can hold "Coroner Inquest" and take sworn testimony
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Medical Examiner - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Required to be an
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M.D.
-Specialization in pathology |\ |\




-Usually board-certified |\




-Will make determinations using all available information
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Medicolegal Death Investigator - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔- |\ |\ |\ |\ |\ |\


Personnel from ME or Coroner's office who respond to a crime
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scene and coordinate efforts with police and crime scene
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personnel.
-Collecting information to assist in determination of Cause and
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Manner of Death |\ |\




-Additional personnel used to help determine Cause and Manner
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of Death, or identification
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|\ -Forensic Anthropologist |\

, |\ -Forensic Odontologist |\




|\ -Forensic Entomologist |\




Forensic Pathology - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Examination of a
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body
-Cause and Manner of Death
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Cause of Death - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-What is the action that
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initiates the series of events ending in death?
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-What is the character of the injury that started the chain of
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events?
-May include "contributing factors" if death is prolonged, adverse
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medical conditions |\




-Usually the medical reason someone dies,
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Different types of Cause of Death - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔-Blunt
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Force Trauma
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-Sharp Force Trauma |\ |\




-Asphyxiation
-Gunshot Wound to Head |\ |\ |\




-Heroin Toxicity |\




-Undetermined
-Atherosclerosis


Blunt Force Trauma - CORRECT ANSWERS ✔✔Injuries caused by
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non-sharpened object |\