Forensigraphy
The term forensigraphy (also forensigraphy) refers to the use of imaging processes in forensics . In the context of forensigraphy, (possible) criminal acts and their consequences are examined, analyzed and reconstructed with the help of imaging procedures and methods. It is an umbrella term for all imaging applications whose purpose is the investigation and analysis of criminal activities. This includes mug photos of the suspect , photos of the crime scene and the murder weapon as well as images of the living or dead victim. The latter addresses medical forensigraphy. This term is used to subsume examination methods of medical diagnostic imaging , which provide image data of the human body and are used in connection with the examination and analysis of criminal acts. Medical forensigraphy represents an important interface between forensic science and medicine , within which it can be clearly assigned to the field of forensic medicine . Depending on whether it is about the application of forensic radiology to the dead or forensic radiology to the living, we can speak of post-mortem forensigraphy or clinical forensigraphy.
Origin of the term
Etymologically, the term forensigraphy can be derived from the Latin word forum, which means "forum, main square, marketplace". The associated adjective (forensis) means "belonging to the market; public; judicial", since in ancient Rome court hearings were carried out publicly on the market square (forum). The end of the word forensigraphy comes from ancient Greek: γράφειν (graphein) means "to write, draw, paint". The subject ἡ γραφή (he graphe) can be translated as "writing, drawing, painting, image". According to this, forensigraphy can literally be translated as “judicial image” and it is precisely this that is to be obtained with the use of imaging methods for forensic purposes.
literature
- Riener-Hofer: Imaging and Forensics: Forensigraphie In: Kriminalistik 11/2013.
- Riener-Hofer / Webb / Scheurer: Forensigraphy: The integration of imaging techniques into the criminal justice system In: European Police Science and Research Bulletin , Winter 2014/15 pp. 49–58 ( PDF file )