The Mechanics of Injury Production and Wounding Forces in Judicial Context

An injury is defined as illegally caused harm to any person’s body, mind reputation or property. In practice, injuries often consist of combination of several basic injury types and usually classified according the predominant injury type. The wounding process and distribution of injuring force are governed by equations of motion physics. However, the purpose Legal judgment demands the forensic medical expert, as an independent witness, to explain those complex biophysical remedies in the context of the common legal sense, which can be easily understood by the courts. Therefore, we suggest the following simple biomechanical classification of wounding process that could serve the purpose; light force, moderately heavy force and heavy force injuries.