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Conference Proceedings - Galaţi, 24 th -25 th of April 2009
Year I, Vol. II - 2009
2. Legal medicine – integrated science used for investigating
people with judicial implications.
Within the complex activity implied by the legal medical
investigation, no matter its specific, the expert specialized in legal medicine
uses integratively and synthetically knowledge from more scientifical
fields, all of them leading to finding out the truth in a cause. Thus, scientific
data and information in the following fields are used:
- general psychopathology ordered according to specific criteria,
correlated with psychological examination and with data gathered from the
social investigation;
- knowledge offered by general psychology and clinical sociology,
adapted to the judicial context:
- information from certain medical fields, such as: neurology,
endocrinology (offers data used more frequently in civil causes, for
children, teenagers and women), ophthalmology (standard examination
required in penal and civil causes), electrophysiology (for example, the
EEG represents a standard investigation in any psychiatrical legal medical
examination, skull X-rays, angiography, pneumoencefalography,
tomography , etc.) and forensic investigation;
- various knowledge and information in fields such as: Biology (for
ex. the theory of adaptation, Genetics), Chemistry referring to Toxicology,
General Hygene referring to Environmental and Work-related Hygene,
Tanatology, including Pathological Anatomy and Histochemistry (autopsy
data give important elements for the study of heteroagressivity, suicid,
victimology), Ecology, etc.
- uses the specific technique of examining the person;
- uses knowledge and information from the legal field (penal and
civil code, family law, etc.)
- uses knowledge and information in Criminology and
Criminalistics, such as: the biocriminalistic identifying of orgaic traces
(traseology) or lesions (lesional biocriminalistic) resulted from crimes (
Dragomirescu V.T., Op. Cit., pag. 116 ).
Mention that the immediate link between Legal Mdicine,
Criminology and Criminalistics, by using different investigation methods
and also a specific reconstruction methodology (in which the legal medical
cause-effect translated to the legal-social level consists the main linking
element), the legal medical report represents an individualised analysis of
the somatho-psychical of the perpetrator and offers prognostic deductions
in these two scientific fields of law.
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