Running head: THESIS PROPOSAL 1
Thesis Proposal
Name
Institutional Affiliations
, THESIS PROPOSAL 2
Title:
How effective and frequently is forensic entomology used to solve crimes and/or
determine the information regarding the time of death.
Background:
Forensic entomology continues to be used in assisting to solve crimes involving deaths
that are not actually natural. According to Campobasso and Introna (2001), forensic pathologists
will be involved in assessing the cadaver to determine the degree of the postmortem changes and
the ante mortem injuries after a relatively unnatural death. When the death is a result of
unexplained circumstances, then the forensic entomologist should be able to help in the
determination of the cause of death and how the changes that have been made to the cadaver as
a result of insect activity. Campobasso and Introna (2001) continue to argue that when the dead
body is colonized by insects, forensic pathologists should be able to determine how the insect
activity leads to the manner, cause, and time of death. Collecting the temperature data and the
arthropods in the body helps to determine all the above aspects of death if its circumstances
cannot be explained through witnesses.
DNA barcoding is relatively important when it comes to aiding the forensic
entomologists determining the time, manner, and the cause of unnaturally circumstantial deaths.
Essentially, the arthropod colonization coincides with the point when the body died provided that
the temperatures of the colonization activity is not affected by other factors such as weather and
could be used to determine the postmortem interval (Chimeno et al., 2018). Therefore, the
arthropods collected from the body could be used to determine the time when the death occurred.
However, the correct and accurate cause and time of death could only be possible when the
identification of the species found in the body is correctly done. Therefore, when the number of
Thesis Proposal
Name
Institutional Affiliations
, THESIS PROPOSAL 2
Title:
How effective and frequently is forensic entomology used to solve crimes and/or
determine the information regarding the time of death.
Background:
Forensic entomology continues to be used in assisting to solve crimes involving deaths
that are not actually natural. According to Campobasso and Introna (2001), forensic pathologists
will be involved in assessing the cadaver to determine the degree of the postmortem changes and
the ante mortem injuries after a relatively unnatural death. When the death is a result of
unexplained circumstances, then the forensic entomologist should be able to help in the
determination of the cause of death and how the changes that have been made to the cadaver as
a result of insect activity. Campobasso and Introna (2001) continue to argue that when the dead
body is colonized by insects, forensic pathologists should be able to determine how the insect
activity leads to the manner, cause, and time of death. Collecting the temperature data and the
arthropods in the body helps to determine all the above aspects of death if its circumstances
cannot be explained through witnesses.
DNA barcoding is relatively important when it comes to aiding the forensic
entomologists determining the time, manner, and the cause of unnaturally circumstantial deaths.
Essentially, the arthropod colonization coincides with the point when the body died provided that
the temperatures of the colonization activity is not affected by other factors such as weather and
could be used to determine the postmortem interval (Chimeno et al., 2018). Therefore, the
arthropods collected from the body could be used to determine the time when the death occurred.
However, the correct and accurate cause and time of death could only be possible when the
identification of the species found in the body is correctly done. Therefore, when the number of
