Disaster victim identification

Graham, Eleanor A. M.

doi:10.1007/s12024-006-0011-0

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“…• Measurement/Accuracy-Grade 5-Since the Xynthia storm was declared a national disaster by the French authorities, the number of deaths determined by forensic reports is expected to have been established using standard disaster victim identification (DVI) procedures (e.g., see Graham 2006). …”

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A framework to assess quality and uncertainty in disaster loss data

Romão

Paupério

2016

Nat Hazards

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There is a growing interest in the systematic and consistent collection of disaster loss data for different applications. Therefore, the collected data must follow a set of technical requirements to guarantee its usefulness. One of those requirements is the availability of a measure of the uncertainty in the collected data to express its quality for a given purpose. Many of the existing disaster loss databases do not provide such uncertainty/quality measures due to the lack of a simple and consistent approach to express uncertainty. After reviewing existing literature on the subject, a framework to express the uncertainty in disaster loss data is proposed. This framework builds on an existing uncertainty classification that was updated and combined with an existing method for data characterization. The proposed approach is able to establish a global score that reflects the overall uncertainty in a certain loss indicator and provides a measure of its quality.

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Section: Application Examples Of the Proposed Frameworkmentioning

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A framework to assess quality and uncertainty in disaster loss data

Romão

Paupério

2016

Nat Hazards

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“…Thus, forensic radiology was first reported for human identification in 1949 [1]. Identification of more than 70 victims of Waco siege fire outbreak in 1993 with DNA typing indicated the beginning of Forensic Genotyping [4]. As a matter of fact, Anthropology has been involved in DVI activities for more than a century [5].…”

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Beyond DVI: Future identification, research and archiving

See¹,

Aziz²,

Mahmood³

2016

Forensic Sci Crimino

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In the context of mass fatality incident, it is of utmost importance to identify the victims rapidly and accurately, both for judicial reasons and to provide closure for family members. DVI teams work in an interdisciplinary manner, engaging the services of experts in various disciplines, comprising of pathologists, anthropologists, odontologists, radiologists, fingerprint and DNA experts to work collaboratively towards the identification of victims. The DVI process is conducted by adopting the fundamental principle where the highest possible quality standards should be applied and victims are to be treated with dignity and respect, in accordance to the internationally recognised INTERPOL DVI guide. The DVI process used extensively by many countries in numerous disasters consists of four phases namely, Scene, Postmortem, Antemortem and Reconciliation. DVI is not a new discovery in which identification procedures have evolved and developed particularly in its application going beyond identification, to recording and documenting for future referencing by the victim's family to researchers. This paper focuses on the dynamic and continuous evolution, particularly the application of the DVI process in setting up a procedure for temporary controlled burial for all the unidentified remains in the two cases of Malaysia mass fatality. The two cases discussed conveys the importance of expanding the DVI process to include procedures for future identification and archiving. This extended version of the DVI protocol can be used for temporary controlled burial for all the unidentified remains as means of forensic humanitarian reason as well as for criminal investigation.

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“…DNA typing techniques are available to aid identification 3 , 4 . DNA typing has played a more prominent role in the identification of human remains, and particularly so for highly decomposed and fragmented remains.…”

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“…DNA typing techniques are available to aid identification. 3,4 DNA typing has played a more prominent role in the identification of human remains, and particularly so for highly decomposed and fragmented remains. For cases involving mass fatalities and/or highly fragmented remains, DNA provides an essential component of the identification process.…”

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Ethical Issues in DNA Identification of Human Biological Material from Mass Disasters

Caenazzo

Tozzo

Rodriguez

2013

Prehosp. Disaster med.

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Each mass disaster has its own characteristics and will involve a different approach, so the safeguarding and collection of forensic evidence have to be considered as part of the field response procedure. DNA typing has played a more prominent role in the identification of human remains, and particularly so for highly decomposed and fragmented remains. Although the ultimate goal is to obtain the identification, the specific context of each application of human identity testing has its specific problems, ranging from technical approach, through statistical interpretation, to ethical issues. The preparedness plan of the forensic genetics laboratory needs to include policies for family notification, long-term sample storage, and data archiving. For this reason, DNA sample collection and a strategy for DNA-based victim identification needs to be part of the preparedness plan. In this paper, the authors seek to define three of these ethical aspects: (1) the humanitarian importance of identification; (2) resource allocation in the victims' DNA identification; and (3) the secondary use for research of the samples initially collected for identification purposes. DNA analysis for the purpose of identifying victims of mass disasters has complex implications that demand much more rigorous examination than they have received until now.

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Disaster victim identification

Cited by 31 publications

References 24 publications

A framework to assess quality and uncertainty in disaster loss data

A framework to assess quality and uncertainty in disaster loss data

Beyond DVI: Future identification, research and archiving

Ethical Issues in DNA Identification of Human Biological Material from Mass Disasters

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