Syllabus
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Course Code: M-FSC 304 Course Name: Forensic Anthropology and Biometrics |
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| MODULE NO / UNIT | COURSE SYLLABUS CONTENTS OF MODULE | NOTES |
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| 1 | Forensic Anthropology: Development of Forensic Anthropology, scope and problems, development and structure of bones, morphological study of human skeleton, comparative study of human and animal skeleton. Techniques for recovering skeletonised human remains. Osteometry, Craniometry: Introduction, methods and their importance in personal identification, Statistics. |
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| 2 | Personal identification from skeleton remain: Determination of race from skull and other bones, determination of race, age, determination of gender and reconstruction of stature from skeleton remains. Assessing Trauma and Time Since Death. | |
| 3 | Forensic Odontology: Definition, scope, structural variation and types of teeth. Determination of age and sex from teeth, Gustafson’s method, dental anomalies and their significance Bite Marks: Methods of collection, preservation, recording, comparison and their significance. |
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| 4 | Biometrics: Scopes, biometric characteristics, biometric techniques- data collection, transmission, signal processing, storage, identification. Fingerprint, face, Iris and retina imaging, ear, speech recognition, pattern comparison, termination of human gait pattern in living people. Application of biometric tool. Facial Reconstruction: Introduction, theory and methods, importance of tissue depth to reconstruct various facial futures, genital and congenital anomalies. Facial Restoration to identify the victims and human bombs in blast cases. |
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