Anthropology: Pediatric and Juvenile.

he death of a fetus or child due to maltreatment raises many forensic as well as physiological issues. Forensic anthropological techniques using medical imaging of bones are very useful in analyzing the sequelae in physical child maltreatment[note that there are over recent years several terms and expressions to explain the results of physical child trauma: non-accidental trauma (NAT) or nonaccidental injury (NAI); suspected child physical abuse (SPA); inflicted injury (II); battered child syndrome; abusive head trauma of “shaken baby syndrome”(Bhattacharya et al., 2023; Paddock et al., 2017a)]. In infanticide and fetus death, anthropological characteristics and clinical parameters of age estimation are also of high importance. The contribution of forensic anthropology to the pathologist’s examination is of fundamental importance. The fields of forensic anthropology and bioarcheology are complicated and requires a multidisciplinary approach.

Peer Review, International Redaction Board