Archiv für Kriminologie
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Archiv für Kriminologie · Jan 1996
Case Reports[Gunshot fatalities in connection with hunting and hunting rifles--causes, prevention and expert evaluation].
Fatalities due to gunshot injury by hunting firearm or during hunting, that had been investigated in the Institute of Legal Medicine of Hamburg University during the last 20 years, were retrospectively analyzed from the view points of epidemiology, morphology, criminology and ballistics. Thirteen accidents, 23 suicides and 13 homicides were included in this study. Female victims were observed in only 2 cases. ⋯ The discussion concentrates on the effect of the kind of firearm and ammunition on the appearance of the wound, prevention of accidents, and the principles of reconstruction, especially concerning the differentiation accident/suicide. The forensic expert investigating gunshot injuries during hunting should have personal experience in this field. The most frequent cause of accidents was careless handling of the loaded firearm and violation of invulnerable rules for safety during hunting.
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Archiv für Kriminologie · Jan 1996
Case Reports[Murder weapon in a homicide case--signal pen or bullet pen gun?].
Report about a homicide case, where a female taxi driver was killed by a shot through the neck. The partly confessing perpetrator maintained that he had shot the woman by using a signal pen loaded with a signal cartridge. ⋯ Shots were done through a flash ranging chronograph and to the cervical spines of slaughtered calfs. The ballistic data compared with the wound morphology led to the reconstruction of the homicide.
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Archiv für Kriminologie · Jan 1996
[Experiences with the polyvinyl alcohol method in forensic medicine practice].
The author reports about his experiences with the polyvinylalcohol (PVAL) method for sampling gunshot residues from the hands of suicides. Traces of blood are no obstacle for the PVAL-method. It is even possible to save gunshot residues with PVAL after sampling with cottonswabs or tape-lifts. High resolution radiography is proposed for the evaluation in addition to the chemographic analysis as a second independent method.