Summary:
Trauma and violence represent the domains of forensic medical expertise. The objective finding
on the victim of the homicide makes it possible to reconstruct the way and mechanism of the
injury connected with it and thus to determine the cause of death. The traces of violence contain
many indices pointing at specific personal characteristics of the culprit, his motivation to the
crime and his state of mind at the time of the homicide. To judge the penal responsibility and the
guilt of the culprit it is important for the court to have the analysis of the dynamics and of the
causal background of the crime, especially the synthetic evaluation of subjective, situation, or
eventually psychological factors of violence with the mortal effect. The interdisciplinary forensic-
medical, forensic-psychological and psychophytological approach will make it possible to provide
the court with a complex forensic expertise.
Key words:
forensic expertise - pathodynamic of the homicide - criminology - forensic medicine -
aggressivity - interdisciplinary cooperation
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