@article{ref1,
title="Criteria for the classification as a "domestic-setting corpse"--a literature search and review to define the term",
journal="Archiv für Kriminologie",
year="2011",
author="Merz, Marius and Birngruber, Christoph G. and Heidorn, Frank and Ramsthaler, Frank and Risse, Manfred and Kreutz, Kerstin and Krähahn, Jonathan and Verhoff, Marcel A.",
volume="228",
number="5-6",
pages="191-202",
abstract="In German medical and media circles (daily routine, specialist literature, press, novels), the term &quot;domestic-setting corpse&quot; is frequently used, but the term is only vaguely defined. The authors thus decided to perform an in-depth study of the literature, including historic textbooks and all German- and English-language medicolegal journals, going as far back as their first issues, in an attempt to more clearly define the term. Inclusion criteria used in the search were a post-mortem interval of at least 24 hours prior to discovery and discovery of the corpse in a domestic setting. In the literature, 37 cases that complied with the above-mentioned inclusion criteria were found. These cases frequently described &quot;advanced decomposition&quot;, often &quot;unclear cause of death&quot; and &quot;problems in identification&quot;. These characteristics can thus be considered as being additional pointers in the definition. However, we suggest that the two general defining characteristics of a &quot;domestic-setting corpse&quot; are a post-mortem interval of more than 24 hours before discovery and the discovery of the corpse in a domestic setting.<p /> <p>Language: de</p>",
language="de",
issn="0003-9225",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}