Abstract:
Assaults are extremely common in the day to day life of a Judicial
Medical Officer or an Accident Service Surgeon. Most of the admissions to
the Accident Service Unit of any major hospital in almost anywhere in the
world are due to accidents and assaults. Accidents are preventable disasters
and there are major organizations whose main role is to draw strategies and
plans to prevent accidents-be them domestic, industrial, occupational, traffic
or otherwise. On the other hand, assaults are always man-made and the
underline factors are very different from those of accidents. Assaults are a
serious health and economic burden in a country. Additionally, there are
socio-economic, religious, ethnic, cultural and legal issues intermingled with
the broad picture of “assaults”. Very few studies have been done in depth
about assaults in the recent past which cover the multiple aspects of the
issue. Even the conclusions drawn from the most extensive study on this
subject may become obsolete and dilapidated after few years, as the patterns
of wounding and the methods and trends are changing constantly across the
globe. This justifies the necessity of continuous research by different
authorities to this ever-changing subject.
