Journal of Forensic Research

Xiaojun Yu

Publications

• Research Article
  Quantitative Research in Modern Forensic Analysis of Death Cause: New Classification of Death Cause, Degree of Contribution, and Determination of Manner of Death
  Author(s): Xiaojun Yu, Haipeng Wang, Long Feng and Jiazhen ZhuXiaojun Yu, Haipeng Wang, Long Feng and Jiazhen Zhu
  
  In practice of the forensic pathology, many scholars have been keenly aware that the classification of death cause in International Statistical Classification of Diseases (ICD) could not contain and explain the all situations of multiple factors leading to death. Additionally, there remain some viewpoints to be discussed about the traditional rules and method of degree of contribution and manner of death (MOD). To solve the new growing problems in forensic examination and criminal investigation, the quantitative method was introduced into the legal medicine. Firstly, the classification method of death causes was further perfected on the basis of the traditional theory in WHOICD (10). And all factors related to death had been divided into eight kinds of death causes and given the definitions and degrees of contribution, according to their quantitative .. Read More»
  DOI: 10.4172/2157-7145.1000221

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