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DNA and fingerprint analyses of debris from improvised explosive device.
Forensic Sci Int
October 2024
Departmenst of Forensic Sciences, Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea; ID-Cell Forensics Co., Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea; Convergence Bio Forensic Institute (CBFI), Biomedical Institute for Convergence at Sungkyunkwan University (BICS), Sungkyunkwan University, Suwon, Republic of Korea. Electronic address:
Improvised explosive devices (IEDs) can be assembled directly from daily items and are easily purchasable and distributable internationally, owing to the absence of government export permits. Hence, their origins are not readily revealed, and they can pose significant adverse effects despite their low manufacturing costs. In this study, the feasibility of identifying fingerprints and deoxyribo nucleic acid (DNA) profiles in various IEDs and samples is investigated.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Most research examining first responders of terrorist incidents has been conducted in early post-disaster periods, utilized quantitative research methods, and focused on psychopathology such as post-traumatic stress.
Methods: Longitudinal follow-up assessments of 124 workers from 181 baseline volunteer rescue and recovery workers originally studied were completed nearly a quarter century after the terrorist bombing of the Murrah Federal Building in Oklahoma City. Open-ended qualitative interviews were used in the follow-up study.
A Qualitative Narrative Study of Rescue and Recovery Workers Responding to the Terrorist Bombing of Oklahoma City's Murrah Building.
J Occup Environ Med
August 2024
From the College of Nursing, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida (E.W.P.); Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences, University of Washington School of Medicine, Seattle, Washington (J.W.); Department of Social Work, Tarleton State University, Ft. Worth, Texas (E.R.); Private Practice, Tampa, Florida (D.E.P.); The Altshuler Center for Education & Research Metrocare Services, Metrocare Services, Dallas, Texas (C.S.N.); and Department of Psychiatry, School of Medicine, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas (C.S.N.).
Objective: Much of disaster mental health research uses quantitative methods, focusing on numerical prevalence, services, and outcomes.
Methods: Qualitative methods can provide more detailed, rich, and spontaneous insights into personal disaster experiences, yielding important insights beyond deductive methods. This large-scale qualitative narrative study examined experiences of 181 Oklahoma City bombing rescue/recovery workers.
Role of Forensic Odontology in Identification of Persons: A Review Article.
Cureus
March 2024
Prosthetic Dental Science, Faculty of Dentistry, Najran University, Najran, SAU.
Forensic dentistry plays a pivotal role in identifying deceased individuals when visual or other means of identification are not possible, particularly in the aftermath of mass disasters or criminal activities. Accurate and timely identification of the deceased and injured becomes crucial following events like earthquakes, fires, transport accidents, gunshot incidents, floods, tsunamis, bomb blasts, and terrorist attacks. The process of creating a person's identity is a formidable task, often relying on prevalent methods such as dental, DNA, and fingerprint analyses.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFComplexity, Lethality, and the Perverse Imagination: Modelling Nonstate Actors' Means of Attack.
Stud Confl Terror
April 2021
The Miriam Hospital, Division of Infectious Diseases, and the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA.
In the pursuit of security, state actors presume a linear relationship between the lethality and complexity of various means of attack. They deploy resources and research programs to overcome the inherent or "analytic" complexity of increasingly lethal means of their own (think of programs to develop nuclear weapons and other highly lethal munitions), and they impose security, legal and regulatory regimes to increase the imposed or "synthetic" complexity opponents must overcome to appropriate or adopt the means they develop. Nonstate actors such as terrorists overcome the challenges of complexity by imaginatively seeking new ways to operate in an alternative high lethality/low complexity space.
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