SPECIAL CRIME

INVESTIGATION
ODHEZZA F. FAJILAGMAGO, RCRIM

BATANGAS STATE UNIVERSITY-THE

NATIONAL ENGINEERING UNIVERSITY
FORENSIC SCIENCE

Deals with the scientific facts to legal problems and the judicial process.

FORENSIC- means the analysis of information suitable for use in a

court of law, it comes from the Latin word “forensic” which means
forum.
THE FIELD OF FORENSIC MEDICINE

LEGAL MEDICINE
• Associated with death and autopsies, but it also applies in
other legal processes, such as determining whether a
violent crime is a homicide, suicide or accident or whether
they constitute negligence, sexual assault, physical abuse or
domestic violence.
THE FIELD OF FORENSIC
MEDICINE

FORENSIC MEDICINE
•Branch of medicine that covers both the fields of
forensic pathology and clinical forensic medicine.

CLINICAL FORENSIC MEDICINE

•Involves an interaction between the loving person ,
medicine and legal processes
 Subspecialty that deals with the investigation of the
sudden, unexpected and/or violent deaths.
FORENSIC
PATHOLOGY The main role of the forensic pathologist is to
undertake death investigations and perform medico-
legal autopsies.

PATHOLOGY- means “the study of diseases “

PATHOLOGIST- physician who determines a

patients diagnosis from an examination of a tissue
sample or cells under the microscope.
 FORENSIC PHYSICIAN
• Tasked to undertake a variety of functions.
CLINICAL They have been called police surgeons,
FORENSIC forensic medical officers or forensic medical
examiners.
MEDICINE • Involves the examination of living patients
who have certain rights and capabilities.
• Most examinations have both therapeutic and
forensic aspects.
• Has an obligation to provide necessary and
appropriate information to the police to
facilitate the investigation of a crime.
FORENSIC TOXICOLOGY

Forensic science discipline that deals with the

identification and quantification drugs, poisons and other
toxic substances in body tissues and fluids.

Victims who have been accidentally or purposely

poisoned are examined by the toxicologist to
detect substances in the blood, urine , spinal
fluid , gastric contents and tissues.
FORENSIC ANTHROPOLOGY

Forensic anthropologists can

The subspecialty is concerned
The scientific field of physical differentiate between post-
with the examinations of bones
anthropology is concerned with mortem changes to help in
and skeletal remains in order to
the study of humans in relation to identifying mysterious remains
provide information about sex,
their physical characteristics. and to determine whether the
race , age and time of death.
death was caused by foul play.
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PADAYON FUTURE
RCRIM