Impact of biological, legal, and social identity on the forensic anthropologist

Identity is a complex term. An individual may have any or all of the following identities: personal, familial, communal, social, religious, cultural, national, and so on. Since human being is a social animal, he has multiple identities, establishing just one of which, may not be enough to identify him. A person who may be a son, a husband and a father within the snug boundaries of home may be a perpetrator of some crime or the victim of the same in a different scenario. Therefore, to identify him in relation with something as legally important as a crime scene, all three types of identity, biological, legal and social, of the concerned individual may be needed to be established.