Disaster Victim Identification
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Based on a selection of key historical incidents, this book provides a candid discussion of potential areas for improvement in preparedness and future deployment capabilities, written by the actual investigators. The book explores how mistakes of the future are more likely to be avoided if historya (TM)s lessons are available, and explains that future deployments may be more efficient and effectively executed as a result. Each chapter provides a summary of the case examined, details of the disaster, and a review of important aspects in terms of legislative, moral, practical, and other considerations.…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Based on a selection of key historical incidents, this book provides a candid discussion of potential areas for improvement in preparedness and future deployment capabilities, written by the actual investigators. The book explores how mistakes of the future are more likely to be avoided if historya (TM)s lessons are available, and explains that future deployments may be more efficient and effectively executed as a result. Each chapter provides a summary of the case examined, details of the disaster, and a review of important aspects in terms of legislative, moral, practical, and other considerations.
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Autorenporträt
Sue Black is director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID), University of Dundee. Professor Black was awarded a police commendation by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in 2008 for development and implementation of the UK national advanced disaster victim identification training course. She holds a bachelor of science (honors), a doctorate in human anatomy, and an honorary DSc in recognition of services to forensic anthropology. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Anthropological Institute and honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow. Graham Sunderland retired in 2009 as assistant chief constable in Cumbria, where he had been in charge of crime and operations since 2004, prior to which he spent 25 years in West Yorkshire. He has held many positions within the police service, having acted as senior investigating officer and base control unit commander. In addition, Mr. Sunderland was the northeast regional hostage negotiator coordinator and the head for public protection issues as a detective chief superintendent. He was senior identification manager for the Selby rail crash and reviewed the response to the tsunami on behalf of Interpol in 2005. S. Lucina Hackman is the national disaster victim identification program coordinator for the advanced training program based in Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID), University of Dundee. She is involved in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as supervising research projects. She is studying for a PhD, under the supervision of Professor Sue Black, investigating the identification of age in living individuals as applied to asylum applications and those seeking refugee status Xanthé Mallett is lecturer in the Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification. Dr. Mallett was part of a team that traveled to Brazil to teach best practice in human skeletal identification and has coauthored a considerable number of forensic reports for UK police forces. In her professional capacity as a forensic anthropologist she undertakes casework, research, and teaches techniques in human identification at both the undergraduate and postgraduate level. Her area of expertise is in the comparison of hand images, commonly applied to forensic cases involving digital images. She was involved in the disaster victim identification training and is a council member and membership secretary for the British Association for Human Identification.