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Welcome to Deviance and
Violence
Seminar 9
Review
unit 8
What to expect
Q and A
Care Providers and Serial Murder
Who are considered “Place Specific Killers”?
Care Providers and Serial Murder
 Place
Specific Killers- The Stay at Home or
At Work Killers.
These individuals usually work in the
health care industry.
Care Providers and Serial Murder
Care Providers and Serial Murder
NCAVC and VICAP
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What does NCAVC & VICAP stand for?
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Why Were they developed?
NCAVC
VICAP
Forensic Anthropology
University
of Tennessee Forensic
Anthropology Center
Purpose
1. Observe bodies decomposing
under controlled conditions
2. Skeletonize the remains in order to
add them to the research collection.
Death
THE MEDICO-LEGAL
EXAMINATION
A. The medico-legal examination brings medical skill to
bear upon injury and death investigations.
 B. The medical specialist frequently called upon to assist in
such cases is the forensic pathologist.
 1.
Forensic Pathology, a subspecialty of pathology,
is the study of how and why people die.
 2.
Forensic Nursing- The application of forensic
science, combined with the biological and psychological
education of the registered nurse.
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THE MEDICO-LEGAL
EXAMINATION
Forensic Toxicology- The study of poisons
 4. Forensic Odontology- The application of the arts and
sciences of dentistry to the legal system.
 5. Forensic Anthropology/Archaeology- The
examination of human remains/ recovery of scattered or
buried remains.
 6. Forensic Taphonomy- Interpretation of outdoor death
scenes and postmortem processes. History of the body after
death.
 7. Forensic Entomology- The study of insects associated
with a dead body.
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3.
Disposition
Sentencing
WHAT SHOULD THEIR SENTENCE
BE?
Sentencing
Death
Life
Multiple
Life Sentences
Capital Punishment
Is
capital punishment an appropriate
sentence?
Can this type of offender be
rehabilitated?
Treatment
Psychiatric
Cognitive
Nothing?
Behavioral Therapy
Deviance and Violence
Seminar 9
Summary
Last Seminar
Q and A
What to expect for Unit 10