Overview
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The four main classifications of death as natural death, accidental death, suicide death, and homicide death. Each classification helps investigators understand the cause and the circumstances surrounding a person’s death.
Natural death would be a person passing away from a stroke or heart attack, these deaths occur due to internal medical conditions or diseases and not because of external forces of human action.
Accidental death would be someone dying in a car crash caused by any kind of road conditions or the cause of how others drive. The death is unintended and although tragic there is no criminal intent involved.
Suicide death is an individual who takes their own life through an intentional overdose of either medication or recreational drug, hanging, self-inflicted cutting and firearm.
Homicide death is simply defined as the killing of one person by another, but it can fall under criminal homicide and non-criminal homicide
Non-criminal homicide would be an officer using justified deadly force in self-defense or in the line of duty and the death is a result from another person’s actions however it is legally justified and not considered a crime.
Criminal homicide is a premediated murder in which someone intentionally killing another person such as robbery and it is classified as an unlawful and it is subject to prosecute under criminal law.