{"id":124548,"date":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","date_gmt":"2018-02-20T23:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/writemyessayfree.com\/medicolegal-death-investigation"},"modified":"2017-08-16T05:59:01","modified_gmt":"2017-08-16T05:59:01","slug":"medicolegal-death-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/medicolegal-death-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Medicolegal Death Investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"the_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Forensic entomology (FE) is the study of insects as it relates to criminal or civil investigations.&nbsp;In criminal cases, it is used to determine postmortem interval.&nbsp;In civil cases, FE may be used because of the introduction of insects into a consumer product or infestation of a structure. A blowfly is an insect commonly used to aid in the determination of postmortem interval.<\/p>\n<p>Research the use of the blowfly in determining postmortem interval.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Describe&nbsp;the stages of the life cycle of the blowfly?<\/li>\n<li>How long is&nbsp;its life cycle (hours\/days\/weeks\/years)?<\/li>\n<li>How does temperature and moisture&nbsp;affect the length of the blowfly\u2019s life cycle?<\/li>\n<li>When time of death is in question, what is the process by which a forensic entomologist would collect samples?<\/li>\n<li>What other information must an FE gather at the scene during the investigation?<\/li>\n<li>What does the FE attempt to accomplish after gathering samples and information and bringing the items back to the laboratory?<\/li>\n<li>How does the infestation of the blowfly affect the rate of decomposition?<\/li>\n<li>After certain lengths of time, other insects infest the remains of a body.&nbsp;Provide examples of the other insects that do this.&nbsp;What are the time intervals in which infestation occurs?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is how i will be graded. As long as youmake sure everything is answered i will make&nbsp;a 100.<\/p>\n<p>The following guidelines will be used for grading:<\/p>\n<table border=\"1\" width=\"500\" cellspacing=\"2\" cellpadding=\"2\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>25%<\/td>\n<td>The student must provide a detailed account of the life cycle of the blowfly, including the life stages, length of the life cycle, and factors that affect this length.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>35%<\/td>\n<td>The student must provide collection techniques, including the process of sample collection and further information a forensic entomologist must gather during an investigation.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>25%<\/td>\n<td>The student should explain laboratory procedures used by the FE, including how the infestation of the blowfly affects the rate of decomposition.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>15%<\/td>\n<td>The student should give examples of other insects that infest remains and the time intervals in which this takes place.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forensic entomology (FE) is the study of insects as it relates to criminal or civil investigations.&nbsp;In criminal cases, it is used to determine postmortem interval.&nbsp;In civil cases, FE may be used because of the introduction of insects into a consumer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/medicolegal-death-investigation\/\" class=\"read-more\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-124548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=124548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=124548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=124548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.benedictsol.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=124548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}