Migrant deaths at the Arizona-Mexico border: Spatial trends of a mass disaster.

Geographic Information Science (GIScience) technology has been used to document, investigate, and predict patterns that may be of utility in both forensic academic research and applied practice. In examining spatial and temporal trends of the mass disaster that is occurring along the U.S.-Mexico border, other researchers have highlighted predictive patterns for search and recovery efforts as well as water station placement. The purpose of this paper is to use previously collected spatial data of migrant deaths from Arizona to address issues of data uncertainty and data accuracy that affect our understanding of this phenomenon, including local and federal policies that impact the U.S.-Mexico border. The main objective of our study was to explore how the locations of migrant deaths have varied over time. Our results confirm patterns such as a lack of relationship between Border Patrol apprehensions and migrant deaths, as well as highlight new patterns such as the increased positional accuracy of migrant deaths recorded closer to the border. This paper highlights the importance of using positionally accurate data to detect spatio-temporal trends in forensic investigations of mass disasters: without qualitative and quantitative information concerning the accuracy of the data collected, the reliability of the results obtained remains questionable. We conclude by providing a set of guidelines for standardizing the collection and documentation of migrant remains at the U.S.-Mexico border.

A importância do odontolegista no processo de identificação humana de vítima de desastre em massa: sugestão de protocolo de exame técnico-pericial / The importance of forensic dentistry in human identification processes of mass disaster victims: sugestion of forensic exam protocol

Neste estudo realizou-se uma revisão da literatura à cerca da análise, sob aspecto odontológico, das identificações humanas de vítimas de desastres em massa e da atuação do perito odontolegista no sucesso deste processo. Assim, através do estudo e análises das casuísticas e da literatura, propusemos demonstrar a importância da atuação do odontolegista no processo de identificação humana e estabelecer o protocolo ideal nos exames técnico-periciais em desastres em massa, que o odontolegista deve seguir, visto que tanto na literatura nacional quanto internacional existem diversos protocolos periciais, não havendo um protocolo oficial.

In this study it had done a scientific literature review about odontology analyze of human identification of mass disaster victims and the importance of forensic dentistry acting for identification success. So through the study and analyze of casuistic and literature we propose to show the importance of forensic dentistry acting in human identification process and establish the ideal forensic exam protocol in mass disaster for forensic dentistry. How is seen in national and international literature it is observed that there are a several forensic exam protocol but there is not have an official protocol.