Mass fatality incidents
Subtitle: a guide for human forensic identification
By: Technical Working Group for Mass Fatality Forensic Identification.
Contributors: National Institute of Justice (U.S.). Technical Working Group for Mass Fatality Forensic Identification.
Series: NIJ special report
Publisher: U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, National Institute of Justice
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Washington, DC
Language: eng
Number of pages: 79
Subjects: Mass casualties -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Emergency management -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Forensic sciences -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Forensic pathology -- Handbooks, manuals, etc; Medical jurisprudence -- Handbooks, manuals, etc
Genres: Handbooks, manuals, etc.
Description: In a mass fatality incident, correct victim identification is essential to satisfying humanitarian considerations, meet civil and criminal investigative needs, and identify victim perpetrators. This report provides medical examiners/coroners with guidelines for preparing the portion of the disaster plan concerned with victim identification and summarizes the victim identification process for other first responders. It discusses the integration of the medical examiner/coroner into the initial response process, and presents the roles of various forensic disciplines (including forensic anthropology, radiology, odontology, fingerprinting, and DNA analysis) in victim identification. This guide represents the experience of dozens of Federal, State and private forensic experts who took part in the Technical Working Group for Mass Fatality Forensic Identification.
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Includes appendices.

Also available via Internet from the National Criminal Justice Reference Service web site. Address as of 9/22/05: http://www.ncjrs.org/pdffiles1/nij/199758.pdf; current access available via PURL.