Abstract

Determining the age of a wound is challenging in forensic pathology, but it can contribute to the reconstruction of crime scenes and lead to arrest of suspects. Forensic scholars have tended to focus on evaluating wound vitality and determining the time elapsed since the wound was sustained. Recent progress in forensic techniques, particularly high-throughput analyses, has enabled evaluation of materials at the cellular and molecular levels, as well as simultaneous assessment of multiple markers. This paper provides an update on wound-age estimation in forensic pathology, summarizes the recent literature, and considers useful additional information provided by each marker. Finally, the future prospects for estimating wound age in forensic practise are discussed with the hope of providing something useful for further study.

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Title
Vitality and wound-age estimation in forensic pathology: review and future prospects
Author
Li, Na 1 ; Du, Qiuxiang 1 ; Bai, Rufeng 2 ; Sun, Junhong 1   VIAFID ORCID Logo 

1  Department of Forensic Pathology, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China;; Key Laboratory of Forensic Science, Shanxi Medical University, Taiyuan, China; 
2  Key Laboratory of Evidence Science, China University of Political Science and Law, Beijing, China;; Collaborative Innovation Centre of Judicial Civilization, Beijing, China 
End page
24
Publication year
2020
Publication date
Mar 2020
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISSN
20961790
e-ISSN
24711411
Source type
Scholarly Journal
Language of publication
English
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1080/20961790.2018.1445441
ProQuest document ID
2400028282
Copyright
© 2020 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis Group on behalf of the Academy of Forensic Science. This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (the “License”). Notwithstanding the ProQuest Terms and Conditions, you may use this content in accordance with the terms of the License.