Medico-Legal Findings, Legal Case Progression, and Outcomes in South African Rape Cases: Retrospective Review
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Medico-Legal Findings, Legal Case Progression, and Outcomes in South African Rape Cases: Retrospective Review
BACKGROUND Health services for victims of rape are recognised as a particularly neglected area of the health sector internationally. Efforts to strengthen these services need to be guided by clinical research. Expert medical evidence is widely used in rape cases, but its contribution to the progress of legal cases is unclear. Only three studies have found an association between documented bodil...
متن کاملImpact of medico-legal findings on charge filing in cases of rape in adult women.
OBJECTIVE To assess the impact of the medical documentation and biological trace evidence in rape cases on the legal process. DESIGN Retrospective descriptive study. SETTING AND SAMPLE Police-reported cases of rape of women ≥16 years old in the Norwegian county of Sør-Trøndelag from January 1997 to June 2003. METHODS Police data were merged with data from the Sexual Assault Center at St O...
متن کاملTwo Interesting Medico-Legal Cases
From a number of medico-legal cases, which have come under my notice during the sixteen months I have been acting as Civil Surgeon of Murshidabad, I have selected two as of interest and worthy of permanent record. (a) False charge of clacoity with self-inflicted injuries.?On the morning of August 22nd, 1898, one Jifcan Ali Mir sent his nephew to report to the Police that a dacoity had been comm...
متن کاملA Medico-Legal Case
On fhp 3rd August 1902 I held the post-mortem examination on the body of a native female child aged about 4 The ooiice reported that about 15 days before her death shT was accidentally kicked by her brother-in-law, aubsem,tntlv 3 days before her death, she was thrown on the ground'by the same brother-in-law from the lap of her 81 The child's mother brought her to the Campbell Hospital where she...
متن کاملA Medico-Legal Case
The following ease occurred at Mliow in September 18G5. Apart from its interost in a medical point of view, it also possesses considerable interest legally in the determination of f bo^Y fur an external bruise, produced by a fall or blow, would ( cauee the extensive apoplectic clot found after deatli^ For it is to be noted that the deceased was seen alire in company with three European soldiers...
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عنوان ژورنال: PLoS Medicine
سال: 2009
ISSN: 1549-1676
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pmed.1000164