An Empirical Research Agenda for the Forensic Sciences

The forensic evaluation and report: an agenda for research.

The written report is a central component of forensic psychiatric practice. In the report, an evaluator assembles and organizes data, interprets results of an evaluation, and offers an opinion in response to legal questions. The past 30 years have seen substantial development in principles and practice of forensic report writing. Drawing on recent advances in the psychiatric report, the authors...

Quality and quality improvement in forensic mental health evaluations.

Despite the growing attention to quality and quality improvement in health care in the United States, forensic psychiatry has yet to incorporate relevant developments and information and make quality an important item on the agenda. This article reviews the empirical research regarding the perceived quality of forensic evaluations, which has primarily examined criminal rather than civil forensi...

Scope of Practice of Forensic Midwifery: An Integrative Review

Background & aim: Forensic midwifery is a new major which has been established in response to the need of endangered women for forensic services and also the lack of service provision in this domain. However, there are ambiguities in the definition of this major and its scope of practice. The present study was conducted to investigate the scope of practice in forensic ...

Enhancement, ethics and society: towards an empirical research agenda for the medical humanities and social sciences

For some time now, bioethicists have paid close attention to issues associated with 'enhancement'; specifically, the appropriate use and regulation of substances and artefacts understood by some to improve the functioning of human bodies beyond that associated with 'normal' function. Medical humanities scholars (aside from philosophers and lawyers) and social scientists have not been frequent p...

Commentary on: DeLisi M. An empirical study of rape in the context of multiple murder. J Forensic Sci 2013; doi: 10.1111/1556-4029.12335.