Violence against victims of killings and abuse of living victims can occur in various forms of violence/trauma, it can be in the form of blunt violence, sharp violence or other forms of trauma, either jointly or separately. Victims of mechanical trauma are victims who are mostly served in clinical forensic medical services, in cases of mechanical trauma victims generally experience bruises, abrasions and lacerations. Knowledge related to injuries/trauma in forensic science is called Traumatology. According to data and information obtained from the Central Statistics Agency, there were 898 cases of crimes against life or homicide that occurred in Indonesia in 2020. North Sumatra is the province with the highest number of murder cases in Indonesia with 99 cases of murder, and The disclosure was 98 cases. Forensic Traumatology is a part of medical science, especially regarding physical trauma, which studies the degree of severity of the wound/injury, the relationship between the wound/injury and the violence that caused it and its relation to the law. Meanwhile, every form of violence that causes injury to someone from a medico-legal perspective is called injury. A condition where the continuity of body tissue is interrupted is also known as a wound. All injuries sustained as a result of physical violence to the body are mechanical trauma or mechanical injuries. There are usually two mechanisms encountered, namely collisions with moving objects and objects that barely move collide with victims who are actively moving. Sharp trauma is a wound caused by contact with a sharp object. Sharp trauma can be divided into three groups, namely: incised wounds, stab wounds and stab wounds.

Traumatology; Mechanical trauma; Sharp trauma