Journal of Forensic Research

Department of Forensic Research, Bio Forensics Research Center, Campania, Italy

Publications

• Review Article   
  Assessing Performance in Forensic Hair Examination: A Review
  Author(s): Eugenio Dorio*, G Calabrese, C Lucanto and P Montagna
  
  Forensic biological examination is a part of forensic science, which has the aims to identify biological matrix and stains on crime scenes or findings. Forensic biological examination is important for the identification of even the smallest biological samples and their attribution to a specific person, victim or suspect. During crime scene investigation hair is one of the biological samples that can be found and can lead the operators to identify the perpetrators. In fact, hair can be easily found on findings, both clothes and objects, near victims and/or in the area of the crime. The hairs functions of protection, sensing and thermal insulation make them strongly present in almost all human population, increasing the possibility to found them quite everywhere, also on crime scenes. Microscopic analysis of the human hairs can be used to make a comparative analysis on suspects, focus t.. Read More»
  DOI: 10.37421/2157-7145.2023.14.546

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