27231 - Criminalistics

Academic Year 2011/2012

  • Docente: Giovanni Pierini
  • Credits: 3
  • SSD: MED/43
  • Language: Italian
  • Teaching Mode: Traditional lectures
  • Campus: Bologna
  • Corso: Second cycle degree programme (LM) in Health Biology (cod. 8023)

Course contents

Knowledge and skills


The forensic medicine as a bridge between science and law

The problem of causation. historical and philosophical perspective, the methodological question.

Ottolenghi and the birth of forensic science

The proof: the  method; consultants of PM and Defence: roles

Professional secrecy 

Forensic elements concerning judicial expertise, the laws on drug abuse and trafficking, the role of technical consultant in italian penal law.

Procedures for collecting and preserving samples , testing vs. analytical procedures.

quality and certification


CRIMINOLOGY

definition, fields in the Italian Code of Criminal Procedure, Clinical criminology: from the typology of the crime to the author profiling


CRIMINALISTICS

the inspection of crime-scene-identification of the remains - the chain of custody

forensic photography, microphotography

Microscopy: optical and electronic (TEM and SEM), confocal

procedures and equipment for investigation of first and second level

Ballistics - Terminal Ballistics, Explosives

Toxicology -environmental crimes -

microbiology and bioterrorism

false in documents

the computer crime


THE VICTIM

Clinical examination of the living ex-post evaluation 

external examination of corpses; difference between judicial and diagnostic autopsy  feedback

The virtuopsy virtual (interactive video practice session)

Forensic pathology

Drug trafficking


Texts / Bibliography

Canuto G, Tovo S. Medicina Legale e delle assicurazioni, Piccin, Padova 1989.

Fiori A.Un discorso nel metodo”, in Riv. It. Med. Leg., 7, 1985, 687 e segg..

Giusti G. – F. Ferracuti F.: Il nesso di causalità in psichiatria forense, Giuffrè, Milano 1989.

Pierini G. T.Balbi et Al Forensic Pathology by Scanning Electron Microscopy CLUEB, Bologna, 2009

Pierini G L.Orienti L. Degli Esposti P. L.Garofani L. G.Gerra G. Santoro A. Tossicologia dei naturali e di sintesi   nell'emergenza e nel follow-up CLUEB, Bologna, 2005 

Puccini C. Istituzioni di medicina legale, Casa Editrice Ambrosiana, Milano 1999.

Ruelle D.Determinismo e predicibilità”, Le scienze n. 82, Agosto 1984.


Teaching

lectures, simulation laboratories


Learning assessment method

test with 30 questions with multiple choice 


Tools for Teaching

Papers and slides free online consultation by the students (educational)


Language of instruction

Italian


Links to further information

http://www.unibo.it/SitoWebDocente/default.htm?UPN=giovanni.pierini@unibo.it


At students disposal on:

see the website of the teacher


Links to further information

http://il materiale didattico in rete sul portale AlmaWeb

Office hours

See the website of Giovanni Pierini