The dominant conception of forensic science as a patchwork of disciplines primarily assisting the criminal justice system (i.e. forensics) is in crisis or at least shows a series of anomalies and serious limitations. In recent years, symptoms of the crisis have been discussed in a number of reports by various commentators, without a doubt epitomized by the 2009 report by the US National Academi...

Author details Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center for Forensic Hair Analytics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center for Forensic Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Institute of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Clinic of Veterinary Surgery, Departm...

Forensic anthropology is affected by the unavoidable limits concerning difficulties in standardization of methods and procedures; age estimation is one of the main tasks of forensic anthropology and odontology, both on the dead and the living: literature has shown several methods of age estimation, and although they may be thought of as equivalent, every procedure has its limits, mean error, pr...

www.cmj.hr Aim To describe and assess the scientific and technical aspects of animal forensic testing at the University of California, Davis. The findings and recommendations contained in this report are designed to assess the past, evaluate the present, and recommend reforms that will assist the animal forensic science community in providing the best possible services that comply with court st...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. (Corresponding author) MD, FACMT, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 2. MD, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Ardabil Universit...

madam, forensic odontology essentially deals with criminal identification by their dental records and aiding to get them to task. with a spike in the mass disasters occurring in the modern world, the focus of this subject has expanded to include the identification of the victims of these natural or man-made calamities. although articles in the recent past suggest the importance of the forensic ...

1Department of Biosciences and Oral Diagnosis, Institute of Science and Technology, São Paulo State University (Unesp), São José dos Campos, São Paulo 12245-000, Brazil. 2University Braz Cubas, Mogi das Cruzes 08773-380, Brazil. 3Universidade Mogi das Cruzes, Mogi das Cruzes 08780-911, Brazil. 4Human Anatomy and Embriology Area, Functional Biology and Health Sciences Department, University of V...

the topic of ward is among the important topics in jurisprudence and forensic medicine. banning literally means prohibiting. the term of prohibition means preventing someone from being involved in financial or non-financial affairs and is called being banned. a person is banned from all affairs such as an unlettered person or some of the affairs such as a dying person. banning has two forms; it...