La antropología : una herramienta de efectividad en la criminalística moderna

Abstract

The forensic anthropology is a science that allows to clarify and to determine the victims' identity as well as his possible reasons of death when they are in outposts been of decomposition, lamentably it has not had a summit in countries as Colombia for lack of investment in scientific equipments and training. Nevertheless, this tool has helped to establish crimes of State and political, as well as disappearances, which has served as support to the humanization that the criminal law has assumed from the second half of last century. This tool has helped to replace the traditional autopsies in the extreme cases, for which the impunity and the injustice already will not be the rules in the judicial processes, has generated it you were guaranteeing the persons at the moment of acceding to the judicial organs to clarify the possible reasons of death in his relatives. The paper of the anthropologist in this context there is movement beyond the exercise in the laboratory to turn into a field agent, where the activities that it realizes in the compilation of material evidential elements and it demonstrates, they help to come to the truth, justice and repair to which the victims have right.