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Home, Patrick, Norman, Danielle, Palmer, Andrew, Field, Philip and Williams, Mark A. (2022) Quantifying forensic investigations involving bloodstain pattern analysis within the UK. Forensic Science International, 339 . 111424. doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111424 ISSN 0379-0738.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111424
Abstract
Research informed by practice is more likely to have a greater impact on society. However, forensic cases are confidential and thus, real-life data regarding the details of violent crime is usually withheld from the public and academia. Through a partnership between the authors institution and a UK police service, casefiles from 78 criminal investigations from 2012 to 2020 involving Bloodstain Pattern Analysis (BPA) were examined and quantified. The most common methods of assault and weapons used were identified as well as the frequency of different bloodstain pattern classifications. The results of this study will help inform researchers and supply forensic training providers with data derived from forensic practice. Despite a significant body of literature exploring impact patterns and software for calculating the Area of Origin (AO), impact pattern was classified at only 22% of scenes, with sharp-force trauma being the most prevalent form of assault. This paper recommends a review of the BPA terminology, to include additional commonly encountered patterns that are not defined by the current standard.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HV Social pathology. Social and public welfare | ||||||||
Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Engineering > WMG (Formerly the Warwick Manufacturing Group) | ||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Bloodstain pattern analysis -- Great Britain, Forensic sciences, Bloodstains, Forensic hematology, Police -- Standards -- Great Britain | ||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Forensic Science International | ||||||||
Publisher: | Elsevier Science BV | ||||||||
ISSN: | 0379-0738 | ||||||||
Official Date: | October 2022 | ||||||||
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Volume: | 339 | ||||||||
Article Number: | 111424 | ||||||||
DOI: | 10.1016/j.forsciint.2022.111424 | ||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 17 October 2022 | ||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 18 October 2022 | ||||||||
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