Recent Articles
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March 19, 2024 Letter to the EditorAbstract I am impassioned by the search of truth in criminal justice. I suppose a 30 plus year long career in law enforcement promotes these ideals.
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November 06, 2023 Review ArticleThe Relationships between Sex Offender Treatments, Callousness, Childhood Trauma, and Victim EmpathyAbstract The current study sought to determine whether male juveniles’ with sexual behavior problems participation in the Integrated Sex Offender Treatment Program (ISOTP) resulted in a decrease in interpersonal callousness, as measured by the Inventory of .....
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September 29, 2020 Review ArticleAbstract Age estimation plays a prime role in forensic identification especially in absence of concerned documents and in unknown dead or living individuals. Its importance is priceless in a country like India where in, on one hand birth records of 10 million.....
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May 26, 2020 Short CommunicationAbstract A forensic medical examination when committing depraved acts is carried out only in cases where there are any changes on the body of the victims, according to which it is possible to establish the fact of such actions. An examination may also be carr.....
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April 27, 2020 Research ArticleAbstract The use of a nondestructive reflection technique to identify small mineral particles in the mid-infrared is reported. The results of this technique for six minerals are compared with those obtained via conventional diamond ATR spectroscopy on powdere.....
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March 08, 2019 Review ArticleAbstract In a case of feminicide and post-mortem mutilation, the forensic psychiatric expertise allows to establish psychopathological and criminological characteristics with respect to the author. In this case, the expert opinion established that the author .....
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November 12, 2018 Research ArticleAbstract In a recreational use of 3,4-methylenedioxymethamphetamine (MDMA, “Ecstasy”), some but not all users are stricken with a serious serotonin (5-hydroxytryptamine; 5-HT) syndrome. This raises a question as to whether there exist subpopulations that .....
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November 09, 2018 Review ArticleAbstract In this special ‘Ecstasy’ edition many of the published papers will be describing phenomena associated with exactly that; the prohibited recreational drug Ecstasy. However, this paper provides a brief review of the history, proposed pharmacologic.....
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July 17, 2018 Case ReportReconstruction of a Shooting Incident to Determine Position of Shooter and Timing of Each Shot FiredAbstract This case report presents the engineering analysis and findings related to a litigated matter. This matter involved an altercation between a member of law enforcement and the driver of an automobile. Multiple shots were fired by the law enforcement i.....
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January 31, 2018 Review ArticleAbstract Stains observed on a crime scene may correspond to biological fluids and therefore contain DNA which can identify a suspect or a victim as well as exonerate an innocent individual. However, fluids at a crime scene may be difficult to detect with the .....
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June 16, 2017 Research ArticleAbstract Estimation of stature is an important tool in developing a biological profile for human identification especially using long bones. Thus far, stature estimation had been done mostly based on the American population. Both Thai Formulae and Malaysia Fo.....
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September 09, 2016 Research ArticleAbstract Background: Post - offence reactions are a rarely investigated area, and comparison of these reactions in convicted homicide offenders and offenders with serious mental illness (SMI) is without substantial antecedent. Aims: We sought to compare po.....
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August 20, 2016 Case ReportAbstract Artifact is any change caused or feature introduced in the natural state of the body that is likely to be misinterpreted at autopsy. We present a case of a young female who allegedly hanged herself and died four days after the incident in a hospital......
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January 08, 2016 Short CommunicationAbstract Practice of imprint tattoo on human body has been witnessed since ancient time. The glimpse of tattoos on human body may be substantially and logical connected with different trends. The practice of tattooing human body undertakes for a number of rea.....
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October 03, 2015 Review ArticleAbstract Ambient mass spectrometry has emerged as a significant tool to facilitate forensic investigation considering its well-known advantages of rapid, direct, nondestructive, high-throughput detection of a broad range of raw samples, as well as its potenti.....
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September 30, 2015 Case ReportAbstract In recent times various human morphological features are used for establishing identity of an individual. One of the essential properties of any trait to be used for personal identification is it should be ‘Unique’ in every individual. External e.....
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September 30, 2014 Review ArticleAbstract Sudden and unexpected deaths in infants have occurred for centuries. It has generally been referred to as sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). A new concept, called sudden unexpected death in infancy (SUDI) was introduced in 1989, which is use.....
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March 04, 2014 Research ArticleAbstract This article describes a classification system for digital images wherein three states are outlined depending on the image's relationship with the external world (the original scene or image of subject matter). This system can be applied to all .....
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March 04, 2014 Mini ReviewAbstract Novel biochemical assays based on biomolecular information processing realized in enzyme-biocatalytic systems were developed for forensic analysis of various biomarkers. On-site analyses of biomarkers for recognition of ethnic origin and gender .....