Egyptian Journal of Forensic Sciences (EJFS) is an open access journal publishing articles in the forensic sciences, pathology and clinical forensic medicine and its related specialties. The journal publishes classic reviews, case studies, original research, hypotheses and learning points, offering critical analysis and scientific appraisal. (https://ejfs.springeropen.com/). EJFS is the officia...

While general clinicians still conduct most forensic assessments, none of the previously published textbooks targets them. In the Preface, the editors of The American Psychiatric Publishing Textbook of Forensic Psychiatry: The Clinician’s Guide acknowledge that their main goal is to create a forensic textbook primarily for the general clinician. The textbook is designed to educate the reader in...

Alan A. Stone, MD has delineated clearly the areas of ethical conflict for the forensic psychiatrist. He focuses primarily on issues of criminal law and psychiatry and the forensic psychiatrist as double agent. However, he also alludes to the four issues concerning ethical boundaries of forensic psychiatry. His first concern is whether psychiatry has anything true to say that the courts should ...

Many activities undertaken by the forensic psychiatrist have nothing to do with dynamic psychotherapy, and rightly so. Likewise, the main thrust of dynamic psychotherapy, is independent of forensic issues. Nevertheless, there is a pre serve of clinical responsibility within forensic psychiatry which, on occasion, justly invokes the aid of dynamic psy chotherapy. This may be when the scope of th...

This article describes a knowledge base of Forensic Semantic Frames FrameFOR. We demonstrate through experimental evaluations that the application of the Semantic Role Labeling (SRL) techniques and Natural Language Processing (NLP) in digital forensic increases the performance of the forensic experts in terms of agility, precision and recall.

background: dental techniques are frequently used in human identifi cation; some of those include comparative analyses of dental features that, being rare or unique to an individual, can establish a positive identifi cation. the usefulness of each feature depends on its population, frequency, and uniqueness. the aim of this study was to determine the prevalence of talon cusps in a portuguese po...

The RCN forensic nursing forum has secured £4,000 to support travel bursaries. The bursaries are available to members of the forensic nursing forum, and need to be for relevant current forensic nursing clinical practice, for example mental health legislation, physical health, risk, violence in mental health care and improving practice.

Digital forensic evidence examination is not a normal science at this time. This paper discusses the important issue of moving toward a science of digital forensic evidence examination. It highlights key areas in which progress has to be made in order for digital forensic evidence examination to become a normal science.

As forensic psychiatry has matured into a well-recognized subspecialty, considerable agreement about the format and content of reports has emerged. Griffith et al. now turn their attention to the art of forensic writing. Their description of the forensic report as "performative narrative" may help to refine professional practice so long as the ethics-related pitfalls are identified and avoided.

Lindsay Thomson is Senior Lecturer in Forensic Psychiatry at the University of Edinburgh (Department of Psychiatry, Kennedy Tower, Morningside Park, Edinburgh EH10 5HF) and Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at the State Hospital, Carstairs. Her research interests include needs assessment in forensic settings, evaluation of risk, and substance misuse in forensic populations. High-security psychia...