Open AccessIMPORTANCE OF THE FORENSIC MEDICAL DETERMINATION OF THE FORMATION MECHANISM OF BODY INJURIES DURING EXAMINATION OF DETAINED PERSONS
Author(s) -
V. O. Olkhovskyi,
P. Kaplunovskiy,
Mykola Gubin,
V. V. Balanovskyi
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
teorìâ ta praktika sudovoï ekspertizi ì krimìnalìstiki
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2708-5171
pISSN - 1993-0917
DOI - 10.32353/khrife.1.2019.37
Subject(s) - law enforcement , forensic examination , forensic science , enforcement , medicine , torture , law , mechanism (biology) , physical examination , medical emergency , criminology , psychology , forensic engineering , political science , surgery , engineering , human rights , philosophy , epistemology , veterinary medicine
Detainees often complain about the unlawful use of force when special means and methods of detention were used, which they take as beatings and torture. Victims with such injuries commonly become the object of forensic medical examination of alive persons which is carried out during the trial and pre-trial investigation. There is a need to systematize and classify many types of mechanical and other types of injury: specific, typical or atypical for the well-known classical methods of hand-to-hand combat that law enforcement officers use.
The purpose of this work was to characterize injuries in victims received during their detention by law enforcement agencies and provide their morphological and clinical analysis in order to identify ways to improve the effectiveness of these injuries’ forensic assessment in the examination of alive persons.
Based on a retrospective morphological and clinical analysis of archival materials of the Kharkiv Regional Bureau of Forensic Medical Examination, the frequency and types of injuries, that were detected during the examination, of suspects injured in the course of their arrest by law enforcement agencies were determined. The features of forensic medical expert assessment in determining the mechanism, the severity of injuries associated with the detention of suspects by law enforcement agencies were defined. In the forensic medical expert practice, in the examination of alive persons when determining severity of injuries to suspects detained by law enforcement agencies, slight injuries and, in certain cases, injuries of moderate severity prevailed.
The localization and the mechanism of bodily injuries formation in detained victims, in some cases, allows to qualify such injuries as specific for detention by law enforcement agencies. A further prospect of this study is the identification and justification of clear diagnostic indications for the forensic assessment of bodily injuries received by suspects when detained by law enforcement agencies that arise from the action of blunt solid, sharp objects, gunshot wounds.