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Chapter 12 deals with some of the most common deaths encountered by death investigation offices, namely blunt force injuries. The chapter includes discussion of the classification of blunt force injury types (abrasions, contusions, lacerations, fractures, and avulsions), followed by a relatively detailed discussion of blunt trauma of the head and neck. The final section of the chapter deals with special topics related to blunt force injuries and includes mechanisms of death, delayed deaths, patterned injuries, clothing examination, and specific subtypes of blunt force injury.
If a man strikes someone with an iron object, … a stone, … a wooden object, … and he hits someone so that he dies, he is a murderer. Numbers 35:16–18
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Prahlow, J. (2010). Blunt Force Injury Deaths. In: Forensic Pathology for Police, Death Investigators, Attorneys, and Forensic Scientists. Humana Press. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-59745-404-9_12
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