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Best Practice Recommendation for Facial Approximation in Forensic Anthropology
This best practice recommendation sets forth guidance for facial approximation from skeletal remains. The production and assessment of facial approximations using skeletal remains represents a combination of varied methods of art and anatomical science that continue to evolve. Th...
Standard for Sex Estimation in Forensic Anthropology
This standard sets forth methods for estimating sex from adult skeletal elements obtained directly from skeletal remains or radiographic images of skeletal remains. The methods in this standard provide a morphologically-based or mathematically-based scientific manner for estimati...
Standard for Analyzing Pathological Conditions and Anomalies in Forensic Anthropology
This standard sets forth techniques and approaches for describing, documenting, interpreting, and reporting pathological conditions and anomalies from skeletal and dental material and/or radiographic images. This document does not provide guidance for distinguishing between anom...
Standard for a Quality Assurance Program in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
This document provides requirements for establishing and maintaining a documented quality assurance program in bloodstain pattern analysis to forensic service providers. A quality assurance program is necessary to ensure the quality of the work product that comes from any forensi...
Standard for Report Writing in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis
This document provides guidelines for report writing in bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA). In addition, guidance is provided regarding statements to be avoided in the report.
Standards for a Bloodstain Pattern Analyst’s Training Program
This document provides minimum pre-training educational requirements for an individual currently in, or entering into, a bloodstain pattern analyst training program and the minimum training requirements that a trainee must successfully complete prior to practicing as a bloodstain...
Postmortem Impression Recovery: Guidance and Best Practices for Disaster Victim...
This document provides guidance on, and highlights challenges associated with, obtaining postmortem prints from decedents and/or human remains in morgue operations associated with mass fatality disaster incidents.