Search for: [Abstract = "In the forensic analysis of childhood deaths, we can distinguish killings, suicides, accidents of various types and deaths due to illness. A similar classification is used to analyze adult deaths, however, both the causes of deaths and their distribution in both age groups are different. This is due to the differences in childhood diseases and adults, lifestyle and social tasks. There are many studies devoted to the problem of child and youth mortality. In most cases that kind of studies are of a statistical nature, used to show the scale of the phenomenon, its causes and mortality trends, i.e. observation whether in a given period of time the number of deaths of children due to a given cause increases or decreases. The obvious limitations of such studies do not allow to explore the cause of death, circumstances of death or pick out individual cases from the mass. The article 209 of the Code of Criminal Procedure \(Journal of Laws of 2018, item 1987, as amended\) constitutes the legal basis for forensic medical autopsy. The article indicates the scope of cases analyzed in the Forensic Medicine Departments, including deaths of children and youth. Therefore the scope can be seen only as a certain fragment of all deaths of juveniles, cases being supervised by the Prosecutor and the Police. The deaths of children and adolescents up to 18 years of age, in which opinions were issued by"]
