Disaster Victim Identification: Experience and Practice

Disaster Victim Identification: Experience and Practice

Disaster Victim Identification: Experience and Practice

Disaster Victim Identification: Experience and Practice

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Overview

Disaster management has become an increasingly global issue, and victim identification is receiving greater attention. By raising awareness through past events and experiences, practitioners and policymakers can learn what works, what doesn‘t work, and how to avoid future mistakes. Disaster Victim Identification: Experience and Practice presents a

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781040083338
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 05/24/2011
Series: Global Perspectives on Disaster Victim Identification
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 272
File size: 4 MB

About the Author

Sue Black is director of the Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID), University of Dundee. Professor Black was awarded a police commendation by the Association of Chief Police Officers (ACPO) in 2008 for development and implementation of the UK national advanced disaster victim identification training course. She holds a bachelor of science (honors), a doctorate in human anatomy, and an honorary DSc in recognition of services to forensic anthropology. She is a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the Royal Anthropological Institute and honorary fellow of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Glasgow.


Graham Sunderland

retired in 2009 as assistant chief constable in Cumbria, where he had been in charge of crime and operations since 2004, prior to which he spent 25 years in West Yorkshire. He has held many positions within the police service, having acted as senior investigating officer and base control unit commander. In addition, Mr. Sunderland was the northeast regional hostage negotiator coordinator and the head for public protection issues as a detective chief superintendent. He was senior identification manager for the Selby rail crash and reviewed the response to the tsunami on behalf of Interpol in 2005.

S. Lucina Hackman

is the national disaster victim identification program coordinator for the advanced training program based in Centre for Anatomy and Human Identification (CAHID), University of Dundee. She is involved in teaching at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels as well as supervising research projects. She is studying for a PhD, under the supervision of Professor Sue Black, investigating the identification of age in living individuals as applied to asylum applications and those seeking refugee status

Xanth allett

is lecturer in the Centre for Anatomy & Human Identification. Dr. Mallett w

Table of Contents

Introduction: The DVI Casebook, UK Incidents. The Aberfan Colliery Disaster, October 21, 1966. The Brighton Hotel Bombing, October 12, 1984. Bradford City Football Stadium Fire, May 11, 1985. Manchester International Airport Fire: Flight KT28M, August 22, 1985. King‘s Cross Underground Fire, November 18, 1987. Piper Alpha Oil and Gas Platform Disaster, July 6, 1988. The Lockerbie Bombing, December 21, 1988. The Hillsborough Football Stadium Disaster, April 15, 1989. The Marchioness Riverboat Disaster, August 20, 1989. The Dunblane Primary School Shootings, March 13, 1996. The Omagh Bombing, Saturday, August 15, 1998. Rail Incidents. Chinese Lorry Deaths, Dover, June 18, 2000. Operation Lund Morecambe Bay Cockling Disaster, February 5, 2004. London Bus and Underground Bombings, July 7, 2005. Close. Index.
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