Professional paper

Challenges of the Forensic and Criminal Investigation Terminology Project in Defining Terms from Identification Domain

Toni Ljubić orcid.org/0000-0003-1275-5622 ; Sveučilišni odjel za forenzične znanosti, Sveučilište u Splitu, Hrvatska
Ivana Kružić ; Sveučilišni odjel za forenzične znanosti, Sveučilište u Splitu, Hrvatska
Šimun Anđelinović ; Sveučilište u Splitu, Split, Hrvatska.
Bruno Nahod ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Perina Vukša Nahod orcid.org/0000-0003-2602-9832 ; Institut za hrvatski jezik i jezikoslovlje, Zagreb, Hrvatska
Željana Bašić orcid.org/0000-0002-8327-1978 ; Sveučilišni odjel za forenzične znanosti, Sveučilište u Splitu, Hrvatska

Abstract

Croatian vocational terminology project (Struna), under the name of Forensic-Criminalistic Terminology is an ongoing project by the Croatian Science Foundation that started in April 2018 and is planned to end in October 2019. The project envisages the definition of 3000 terms from the areas such as crime scene investigation (CSI), contemporary criminal theories and executive management, forensic processing of biological, chemical and physical traces, forensic ballistics and toolmark examination, dactyloscopy, forensic analysis of disputed documents and money, and mass disasters and mass graves. During the project, the authors met with numerous challenges in aligning and modernizing the terminology, and in this paper they will propose solutions to define the concepts of identification, classification and individualization, which are often used in forensic practice, but in a misleading and inappropriate context.

Keywords

Croatian Science Foundation; Struna; forensic-criminalistic terminology; identification; classification; individualization.

Hrčak ID:

225599

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/225599

Publication date:

25.9.2019.

Article data in other languages: croatian

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