Forensic Sciences Research volume 7, issue 4 publishes

Forensic Sciences Research Volume 7, Issue 4 Publishes:

https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tfsr20/7/4?nav=tocList

Special Issue: The Reality of the Dead in Brazil: Perspectives on Identification in Forensic Anthropology

 

This special issue includes a review article, four original articles and four case reports from leading scientists in the field that further the discussion on forensic science research and practice.

 

Guest Editors: Eugénia Cunha, Bridget Algee-Hewitt, and Melina Calmon

Coming to terms with the reality of identifying the dead in Brazil is the challenge we proposed to several Brazilian forensic anthropology experts and it is the focus of this Special Issue. This Special Issue compiles papers from experts from five different states: Minas Gerais, Rio de Janeiro, Distrito Federal, Santa Catarina and Paraíba, shedding light to the forensic anthropology perspective of practice in the identification of the deceased in Brazil. A video introduction to the issue by the Guest Editors can be viewed at https://youtu.be/25P0knFmnyQ

 

The special issue papers in this issue include:

Editorial

The reality of the dead in Brazil: perspectives on identification in forensic anthropology

Eugénia Cunha, Bridget Algee-Hewitt, and Melina Calmon

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2125414

 

Research Article

Identification of victims of the collapse of a mine tailing dam in Brumadinho

Ricardo Moreira Araújo, Yara Vieira Lemos, Erlon Dias do Nascimento, Anna Helena Silva Paraizo, Alberto Julius Alves Wainstein, and Ana Paula Drummond-Lage

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2113623

 

Review Article

Personal identification and missing persons initiatives in Santa Catarina state, Brazil: forensic perspectives from 2019 to 2021

Paulo Miamoto and Clineu Julien Seki Uehara

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2060653

 

Research Articles

Forensic data management and database systems in forensic investigations for cases of missing and unidentified persons in Brazil

Melina Calmon

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2076994

 

Recommendations for procedures related to the evidence chain of custody in forensic anthropology in Brazil

Nicole Prata Damascena, Melina Calmon Silva, Alexandre Raphael Deitos, Rosane Pérez Baldasso, Renata Cristina Grangeiro Ferreira, Cristian Kotinda Júnior, and Carlos Eduardo Palhares Machado

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2076984

 

Case Reports

When identity is not reached: two cases from Brasilia

Aluisio Trindade Filho

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2076797

 

The “microwave oven” practice in Brazil

Yara Vieira Lemos, Luciene Menrique Corradi, Melina Calmon Silva, Lorena de Oliveira Couto, Giovanna Hooper Bittencourt, Alexander Santos Dionísio, Adriana Zatti Lima, Márcio Alberto Cardoso, and Eugénia Cunha

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2067727

 

Anthropological examination in burned body: a retrospective identification case

Marcos Paulo Salles Machado, Andrei de Souza Santos, Gabriela Graça, Luciana Lima, and Ricardo Campos Barcellos

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2125429

 

Case report of a criminal dismemberment in Northeast Brazil

Evelyne Pessoa Soriano, Maria do Socorro Dantas de Araújo, Francisca de Assis Nascimento Pereira, Francisca Divina Silveira de Melo, Cristiane Helena da Silva Barbosa Freire, and Marcus Vitor Diniz de Carvalho

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2055828

 

Research Article

Epidemio-toxicological profile of suicide cases: analysis from a forensic unit in Brazil

Carolina de Castro Martins, Yara Viera Lemos, Maycoln Leoni Martins Teodoro, and Ana Paula Drummond-Lage

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/20961790.2022.2113622

 

Eugénia Cunha, PhD., C- FASE, is a forensic anthropologist and the Director of the South Delegation of the National Institute of Legal Medicine and Forensic Sciences, Lisbon, Portugal. She is also a full professor at the University of Coimbra since 2003, where she created and co-coordinates the Laboratory of Forensic Anthropology. She is a co-founder and former President of FASE-Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (2009—2016); Vice-President and Founder member of ABRAF - Associação Brasileira de Antropologia Forensel; Fellow of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences; Member of the Pathology and Anthropology Sub-group at the Interpol DVI Working Group; Roster member of JRR, Justice Rapid Response. Invited teacher, among others, at Stanford University, USA (Tinker visiting research, Center of Latin American Studies, 2020). Since 1997, she has conducted more than 500 forensic anthropology cases in Portugal and abroad (Brazil and some African countries). She has been a consultant and evaluator to several entities in around 15 different countries and invited speaker in about 25 countries. She is a top peer-reviewer and a member of the Editorial Board of some scientific journals. She is the co-editor/ author of four books and author of more than 150 peer-reviewed publications. To this date, 21 Ph.D. students have already accomplished their Ph.D. under her supervision. Her research aims are focused on forensic anthropology, specifically in identification.

 

Bridget Algee-Hewitt, PhD, is a biological anthropologist who studies how skeletal and genetic traits vary among contemporary peoples, across space and through time. She develops new computational methods, using machine learning/AI and geographic mapping algorithms, and hands on DNA and osteology laboratory approaches to improve estimation of the personal identity parameters – like sex, ancestry, stature, and age – that are essential components of the biological profile used in forensic identification of unknown human remains and for the paleodemographic reconstruction of past population histories in bioarchaeology. As a practicing forensic anthropologist and geneticist, she provides forensic casework consultation to the medico-legal community. She also delivers expert testimony for asylum petitions and advocates for policy change in support of undocumented migrant and refugee rights. Her social justice work focuses on immigration, displacement, poverty, and violence in Latin America, addressing in particular the crisis of migrant deaths along the U.S.-Mexico border. She currently operates within the Tech industry and in Academic research spaces.

 

Melina Calmon, PhD, is a specialist in Forensic Anthropology from the University of Coimbra. Collaborating professor and researcher at national and international institutions. Vice-Coordinator of the Research Group on Forensic Anthropology and Identification of Persons established by the National Police Academy and CNPq, in Brazil. Co-PI of the Taphonomy Facility Pilot Project in Brasília, Brazil. She has served as a Forensic Specialist for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq, as a Visiting Scientist at the Manhattan Medical Examiner’s Office in New York, and as a Forensic External Consultant for the ICRC in Brazil and Peru.

 

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Forensic Sciences Research is a quarterly peer reviewed open access, English language journal publishing international research on forensic sciences, including forensic pathology, clinical forensic medicine, criminalistics and crime scene investigation. It aims to promote forensic sciences through quality research articles, reviews, case reports, and letters to editors. Forensic Sciences Research is indexed in by ESCI, PMC, Scopus, DOAJ, ProQuest, and HeinOnline.

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