Glass Fractures.¶
Scientific Working Group for Materials Analysis (SWGMAT). (2005). Glass Fractures. Forensic Science Communications.
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Primes¶
- Cross Cutting Relationship
- It moved into forensic analysis, where glass-fracture analysis uses cross-cutting — later fractures terminate at earlier ones — to reconstruct event sequences from a static crime scene.
This sourceStates the fracture-sequencing rule that radial/concentric fractures from a later impact terminate at fractures from an earlier impact, letting an investigator reconstruct the order of impacts from a static scene.
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The SWGMAT guideline defines concentric cracks as forming in an approximately circular pattern around the point of impact, usually "in straight segments that terminate in an existing radial crack", and states that glass fracture examinations can give information about the sequence of multiple impacts. A later fracture stopping at an earlier one, read for order of events, is the cross-cutting use the sentence describes. The guideline states the rule for concentric and radial cracks rather than in the sentence's general form, and says nothing about how the principle came into forensic practice.
“The sequence of multiple impacts can be deduced when the cracks caused by a subsequent impact terminate at previously”
- It moved into forensic analysis, where glass-fracture analysis uses cross-cutting — later fractures terminate at earlier ones — to reconstruct event sequences from a static crime scene.
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