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Death Investigations
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adipocere | Soapy appearance of a dead body left for weeks in a hot moist location |
| Algor Mortis | The postmortem cooling process of the body |
| Asphyixiation | Death or unconsciousness resulting from insufficient oxygen to support the red blood cells reaching the body tissues and the brain. |
| Autoerotic Asphyxiation | Accidental death from suffocation strangulation or chemical asphyxia resulting from a combination of ritualistic behavior oxygen deprivation danger and fantasy for sexual gratification |
| Cadaveric Spasm | A condition occurring in certain muscle groups that can indicate suicide |
| Criminal Homicide | Includes murder and manslaughter and is a felony |
| Criminal Negligence | acts of commission or omission creating situations resulting in unreasonable risk of death or great bodily |
| Defense Wounds | nonfatal wounds incurred by victims as they attempted to ward off attackers. |
| Equivocal death | death inquiries that are open to interpretation investagations |
| Excusable homicide | unintentional truly accidental killing of another person |
| expressive Violence | that stemming from hurt feelings anger or rage in contrast to instrumental violence which is goal directed predatory behavior used to exert control |
| First degree Murder | premeditated killing of another person or killing someone while committing or attempting to commit a felony |
| heat of passion | extremely volatile emotional condition |
| Hesitation Wounds | less severe cutting marks caused by an individual attempts to build up courage before making a fatal cutting wound. |
| homicide | the killing of one person by another |
| instrumental violence | goal directed predatory behavior used to exert control in contrast to expressive violence which stems from hurt feelings anger or rage |
| involuntary mansluaghter | killing someone through extreme culpable negligece |
| justifiable homicide | killing another person under authorization of law |
| lethal predator | a extremely dangerous sub type of lethal criminal who possessses |
| livor mortis | dark blue or purple discoloration of the body where blood has drained to the lowest level after death. |
| lust murder | a homicide in which the offender searches for erotic satisfaction by killing someone. |
| malicious intent | without just cause or reason, to commit a wrongful act that will result in harm to another |
| mansluaghter | the crime of killing a human being without malice aforethought, or otherwise in circumstances not amounting to murder. |
| mass murder | is the act of murdering a number of people, |
| mummification | to make (a dead body) into a mummy, as by embalming and drying.is a process in which the skin and flesh of a corpse can be preserved. |
| murder | the unlawful premeditated killing of one human being by another. |
| noncriminal homicide | ruling, usually committed in self-defense or in defense of another, exists under United States law. |
| postmortem lividity | dark blue or purple discoloration of the body where blood has drained to the lowest level after death. |
| predation | the action of attacking or plundering |
| premeditation | the action of planning something (especially a crime) beforehand. |
| rigor mortis | stiffening of the joints and muscles of a body a few hours after death, usually lasting from one to four days |
| 2nd degree murder | an intentional killing that is not premeditated or planned, nor committed in a reasonable "heat of passion" |
| serial murder | is a person who murders three or more people, usually in service of abnormal psychological gratification, with the murders taking place over more than a month and including a significant break (a "cooling off period") between them. |
| sucide | the act or an instance of taking one's own life voluntarily and intentionally especially by a person of years of discretion and of sound mind |
| suicide by police | method in which a suicidal individual deliberately behaves in a threatening manner, with intent to provoke a lethal response from a law enforcement officer. |
| 3rd degree murder | is any intentional killing that involves no prior intent to kill, and which was committed under such circumstances that would "cause a reasonable person to become emotionally or mentally disturbed". |
| toxicology | the branch of science concerned with the nature, effects, and detection of poisons. |
| voluntary slaughter | is the killing of a human being in which the offender had no prior intent to kill and acted during "the heat of passion", under circumstances that would cause a reasonable person to become emotionally or mentally disturbed. |
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