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Medical Examiners and Coroners' Offices, 2004Presents key findings from the 2004 Census of Medical Examiners and Coroners’ (ME/C) Offices. This special report describes the medicolegal investigation of death in the United States. It provides an overview of the personnel, budgets, and workload of these offices by type of office and size of jurisdiction. It also includes information on the number of unidentified human decedents handled by ME/C offices. The report examines record keeping practices and use of national databases for unidentified remains. Detailed data tables on topics covered in this report are available on the BJS website. Highlights include the following:
06/07 NCJ 216756 Press release | Acrobat file (337K) | ASCII file (34K) | Spreadsheets (zip format 60K) |
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