The Status of Forensic Anthropology in Europe and South Africa: Results of the 2016 FASE Questionnaire on Forensic Anthropology

Zuzana Obertova; Pascal Adalian; Eric Baccino; Eugénia Cunha; Hans H. De Boer; Tony Fracasso; Elena Kranioti; P. Lefèvre; Niels Lynnerup; Anja Petaros; Ann H. Ross; Maryna Steyn; Cristina Cattaneo

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The Status of Forensic Anthropology in Europe and South Africa: Results of the 2016 FASE Questionnaire on Forensic Anthropology

Obertová, Zuzana ; Adalian, Pascal ; Baccino, Eric ; Cunha, Eugenia ; De Boer, Hans H. ^[1] ; Fracasso, Tony ; Kranioti, Elena ^[3] ; Lefévre, Philippe ^[2] ; Lynnerup, Niels ; Petaros, Anja ^[4] ; Ross, Ann ^[5] ; Steyn, Maryna ; Cattaneo, Cristina
1. [1] University of Amsterdam
  
  University of Amsterdam
  
  Países Bajos
2. [2] Université Libre de Bruxelles
  
  Université Libre de Bruxelles
  
  Arrondissement Brussel-Hoofdstad, Bélgica
3. [3] Department of Forensic Sciences, Medical School, University of Crete.Greece
4. [4] National Board of Forensic Medicine – Rättsmedicinalverket.Sweden
5. [5] Department of Biological Sciences, NC Human Identification and Forensic Analysis Laboratory, NC State University, Raleigh. Etados Unidos
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Localización: Journal of forensic sciences, ISSN-e 1556-4029, ISSN 0022-1198, Vol. 64, Nº. 4, 2019, págs. 1017-1025
Idioma: inglés
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Resumen
- One of the goals of the Forensic Anthropology Society of Europe (FASE) is to map the existing education and practice opportunities in the field of forensic anthropology in order to support the development of the discipline and to optimize the training courses provided by the Society. To address this goal, an online questionnaire was sent to European and South African practitioners of forensic anthropology and related disciplines in 2016. The results of the questionnaire showed that the status and roles of forensic anthropologists vary depending on the national legal systems, education, and employment status of the practitioners. Despite the fact that the expertise of forensic anthropologists has been increasingly requested in a variety of investigations and the spectrum of tasks has become broader, including identification of living persons, specialized education in forensic anthropology is still restricted to a few graduate and postgraduate programs in European countries and to annual FASE courses.