Citation

Dragomirescu VT. Rom. J. Leg. Med. 1997; 5(4): 384-390.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1997, Romanian Legal Medicine Society)

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Abstract

Legal medicine is entitled to deal with every medical specialty when judicial matters are at stake. Unfortunately legal medicine is still considered somehow a misfit, rejected equally by the medical and judicial body, considered unjustly to be rather technical, administrative bureaucracy, a translator of intermediate between medicine and justice. The present essay is a pleading that tries to demonstrate that legal medicine has a greater potential and is entitled to a much wider spectrum of responsibilities including for example, criminology and criminalistic. The author makes a distinction between medico-legal anthropology which is using identification criteria from biocriminology or in establishing filiation or sexual identification, etc., and the forensic anthropology which is represented in behavioral deviance (especially antisocial personality) also in clinical criminology. Forensic causality which establishes the connection between victim, aggressor, malefactor agent and the nature of the prejudice is compared to social and law causality. Problems of heteroaggressivity, suicide, toxicomania, simulation, victimology, etc., shows the necessity of a unique and large concept upon legal medicine from anthropological view. Psychiatry interference with legal medicine is also demonstrated through the relationship with its main domains (for example: suicide and pathological homicide problems in violent deaths in thanatology, drug addiction and drugs problems in toxicology, simulation problem in traumatology, sexual assaults and sex identification problems in sexology and anthropological legal medicine, victimology and infanticide problems - when the aggressor is examined).

Language: fr

Keywords

Antropological legal medicine; Forensic causality; Victimology