IDNTFCN TN Flashcards
Definition of “Identification”
determination of the individuality of a person or thing
Identification is important in the following cases EXCEPT
a. person denies his identity
b. Establishing connection between a suspicious disappearance of a person and an unidentified dead body
c. unidentified body died of fire, beheading, or accident
d. legal heir.
e. NOTA (identification is important in all)
E
4 cases when identification is important
PUDEL
person denies his identity
unidentified body died of fire, beheading, or accident
disappearance of a person and an unidentified dead body
establishing connection between a suspicious
legal heir
Methods of identification (2)
Comparison
Exclusion
Identification criteria recovered during an investigation are compared with the records available in the file or post-mortem findings
Identification by comparison
If two or more persons have to be identified and all but one is not yet identified, the one whose identity has not been established may be known by the process of elimination.
Identification by exclusion
The following are characteristics which may not easily be changed EXCEPT
a. speech
b. gait
c. body ornamentation
d. physical deformities
C
The following are characteristics which may be easily changed EXCEPT
a. growth of hair, beard, or mustche
b. clothing
c. frequent place to visit
d. color of skin
D
Points of identification applicable to both living and dead before onset of decomposition (2)
Occupational marks
Race
Stature
introduction of coloring pigments in the layers of the skin by multiple puncture
Tattoo marks
True about identification EXCEPT
a. weight is not a good point of identification since it is easily changed from time to time
b. deformities may lead to a person’s characteristic gait
c. at >6 months, scars are brownish or coppery
d. NOTA (all are true)
C. 2-6 mos: brownish/coppery; >6 mos: white, glistening, contracted and rough
He devised a scheme utilizing anthropometrical measurement of the human body as basis of identification
Alphonse Bertillon
True about the Bertillon system of identification
a. The human skeleton is unchangeable after the 25th year
b. it is possible to find 2 human beings having bones exactly the same, although this is a rare case
c. Scars are transient thus not important in the Bertillon system
d. Width of outstretched arms is measured
D
3 Major Components of the Bertillon System
BAD
Body marks
Anthropometrical measurements
Descriptive Data
Components of anthropometrical measurements (3)
BLH
Body measurements
Limb measurements
Head measurements
Most valuable method of identification
Fingerprinting
True about fingerprinting EXCEPT
a. No 2 Identical fingerprints
b. Not interchangeable
c. formed during 4th month of pregnancy
d. Fingerprints can be permanently removed by wounding or burning
D
Impression of finger bulbs with the use of printing ink on the surface of the paper
Real fingerprint
Types of chance impression (3)
Visible Print
Plastic Print
Latent Print
Impression made by chance and is visible without previous treatment
Visible Print
not visible after impression but made visible by addition of some substances
Latent print
made by chance by pressing the fingertips on melted paraffin, putty, resin
Plastic print
Types of fingerprint patterns (3)
Arches
Loops
Whorls
One or more ridges enter on either side, recurves and terminate or tend to terminate on the same side from which it entered
Loops
Patterns with two deltas and patterns too irregular in form to classify
Whorls
Ridges go from one side of the pattern to another, never turning back to make a loop
Arches
True about dental identification EXCEPT
a. possibility of two persons having the same dentition is quite remote
b. The enamel of the teeth is the hardest substance in the human body
c. The timing of ante-mortem records does not affect the reliability of the comparative or exclusionary mode of identification that can be done
d. NOTA
C
T/F A person may be identified through his handwriting/handprinting and handnumbering
T