Journal of Psychiatry

Police classification of bodies found in water as a mysterious death instead of a non-criminal drowning

4^th Euro-Global Congress on Psychiatrists & Forensic Psychology

November 10-11, 2016 Alicante, Spain

Stephen J Morewitz

California State University, USA

Posters & Accepted Abstracts: J Psychiatry

Abstract:

This investigation uses a case series of death incidents from the police classification of foul play project to analyze psychological, social and behavioral factors that predict whether the police will determine that bodies that are found in water are more likely to be classified as a mysterious death than a non-criminal drowning. Using death incidents involving the identification of bodies in water, this research shows that psychological, social and behavioral factors increase the probability that police will classify these types of death incidents as a mysterious death instead of a non-criminal drowning..

Biography :

Email: morewitz@earthlink.net