IDENTIFICATION

 Def:-It may be defined as establishment of

exact individuality of living or dead.

 Classification:-
1.Complete identification.
2.Partial identification.
Medicolegal importances:-

A. Civil cases: B. Criminal cases:

1.Marriage. 1.Absconding soldiers.

2.Passport. 2.Assault.
3.Admission into institute. 3.Rape.
4.Insurance claim. 4.Sodomy.
5.Missing person. 5.Murder.
6.Interchange of newborn
baby in hospitals.
Data of identification:

1. Race. 8. Deformities.
2. Sex. 9. Scars.
3. Age. 10. Tattoo mark.
4. Complexion & features. 11. Occupational mark.
5. Hair. 12. Hand writing.
6. Anthropometry. 13. Clothes & personal
7. Dactylography & foot articles.
prints. 14. Name
 RACE

Def:- Race is defined as biological concept

denoting the different breeding of origin of
human being or genital traits united by common
heredity.
Classification:
1. Caucasian.
2. Mongolian.
3. Negro.
 We Bangladeshis are Caucasian with a
few Negroid character.

Geographical distribution:

1. Caucasian - Europe, Asia, Australia, America.

2. Mongolian - China, Japan, Indonesia, Myanmar
3. Negro - Africa, America, Parts of Asia.
Differences between three races:

Traits Caucasian Mongolian Negro

1.Skull 1.Rounded 1.Square 1.Narrow &
elongated
2.Forehead 2.Raised 2.Inclined 2.Small &
compressed
3.Face 3.Small 3.Large & 3.Molar bones &
proportionately flattened. jaws projecting,
teeth set
obliquely.
Differences between three races:

Traits Caucasian Mongolian Negro

4.Orbit 4.Triangular 4.Small 4.Squarish.

5.Eyes 5.Grey or 5.Black 5.Black

blue
6.Upper 5.Normal 5.Small 5.Long,in proportion
extremities to body,forearm
large in proportion
to arm.Hands are
small.
Differences between three races:

Traits Caucasian Mongolian Negro

7.Lower 7. Normal. 7. Small 7. Legs large in
extremities proportion to
thighs. Feet wide
& flat, heel bone
projecting
backwards.
8.Hairs 8.Golden. 8.Dark 8.Black & curly.
9.Complexion 9.White 9.Coppery 9. Black
red
Medicolegal importances:

1.In the identification of unknown or unclaimed

dead bodies found in railway carriages or lying
in streets, roads & fields in the vicinity of
villages.

2.Or recovered from wells,tanks,canals & rivers.

3.The questions also arises in sea-port

towns,where there is always a conglomeration
of races & communities.
 Cephalic index:

Cephalic index = Maximum breadth of the skull100

Maximum anterior-posterior length.