- 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