Processes, Procedures, Devices and Techniques for the Management of the Missing Body

Introduction: This article explores how the processes of searching for and identifying missing persons have become technical procedures and how they have been implemented. Methodology: Some search and identification tools created by the entities in charge of public policies on forced disappearance a...

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Autores:: Muñoz Marín, César Augusto

Tipo de recurso:: Article of journal

Fecha de publicación:: 2016

Institución:: Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia

Repositorio:: Repositorio UCC

Idioma:: spa

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Summary:	Introduction: This article explores how the processes of searching for and identifying missing persons have become technical procedures and how they have been implemented. Methodology: Some search and identification tools created by the entities in charge of public policies on forced disappearance are systematized, and an ethnographyof the morgue and the laboratory of the National Institute of Legal Medicine in Bogotá is conducted. Results: The importance of the dialog between social sciences and forensic sciences in the historical reconstruction of what the internal armed conflict has been in Colombia is proven. Conclusion: The dialog between social scientists and forensic scientists allows to extend the concept of identification, beyond the sum of technical procedures that result in the identity of a person, thus contributing to the construction of new representation categories of violence.

Processes, Procedures, Devices and Techniques for the Management of the Missing Body

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