Skeletal Trauma: Identification of Injuries Resulting from Human Rights Abuse and Armed Conflict

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CRC Press, 19.02.2008 - 520 Seiten

Born out of the need to recover, analyze, and present physical evidence on thousands of individual victims of large-scale human rights violations, multi-national, multi-disciplinary forensic teams developed a sophisticated system for the examination of human remains and set a precedent for future investigations. Codifying this process, Skeletal

 

Inhalt

Chapter 1 An Epidemiological Approach to Forensic Investigations of Violations to International Humanitarian and Human Rights Law
1
Chapter 2 Differential Diagnosis of Skeletal Injuries
21
Chapter 3 Blast Injuries
95
Chapter 4 Blunt Force Trauma
151
Chapter 5 Skeletal Evidence of Torture
201
Chapter 6 Sharp Force Trauma
263
Chapter 7 Gunfire Injuries
321
Chapter 8 Variation in Gunfire Wounds by Skeletal Region
401
References
449
Index
477
Back cover
503
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Seite 455 - Guidelines for Medical Doctors concerning Torture and Other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment in relation to Detention and Imprisonment...
Seite 456 - According to the 1977 Protocol Additional to the Geneva Conventions of 12 August 1949, and relating to the Protection of Victims of International Armed Conflicts (Protocol I...
Seite xiii - The establishment of the International Tribunal for the Prosecution of Persons Responsible for Serious Violations of International Humanitarian Law Committed in the Territory of the Former Yugoslavia Since 1991...
Seite 1 - It was never the people who complained of the universality of human rights, nor did the people consider human rights as a Western or Northern imposition. It was often their leaders who did so.
Seite 2 - A situation in which one or more of such crimes appears to have been committed is referred to the Prosecutor by...

Autoren-Profil (2008)

Erin H. Kimmerle, Jose Pablo Baraybar

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