Psychiatrists function, in part, as historians who rely on patient narratives to help them understand presenting mental disorders and explain their causes. Forensic psychiatrists have been skeptical of using narratives, raising concerns about their lack of objectivity and potential for bias. They also have criticized narratives as being more performative than scientific. Recent authors, however...

The use of non-human DNA typing in forensic science investigations, and specifically that from animal DNA, is ever increasing. The term animal DNA in this document refers to animal species encountered in a forensic science examination but does not include human DNA. Non-human DNA may either be: the trade and possession of a species, or products derived from a species, which is contrary to legis...

in the present study, genotyping of six short tandem repeat (str) loci including csf1po, d16s539, f13a01, f13b, lpl and hprtb was performed on genomic dna from 127 unrelated individuals from the iranian province of isfahan. the results indicated that the allele and genotype distributions were in accordance with hardy-weinberg expectations. the observed heterozygosity (ho), expected heterozygosi...

A large share of forensic science techniques involving the analyis of physical evidence have never been validated scientifically. The ational Academy of Sciences (NAS, 2009) concluded that, with the xception of nuclear DNA analysis, no forensic method has been rigrously shown to consistently and with a high degree of certainty emonstrate a connection between evidence and a specific indiidual or...

Although thousands of search engines and databases are available online, finding answers to specific forensic science questions can be a challenge even to experienced Internet users. Because there is no central repository for forensic science information, and because of the sheer number of disciplines under the forensic science umbrella, forensic scientists are often unable to locate material t...

J osé Almirall started his career 31 years ago in the forensic science laboratory of the Miami-Dade police department. Now a professor at Florida International University, he develops analytical tools for forensic investigators, including matching broken glass shards to their source using trace-element analysis and detecting crime-related volatiles, such as those found in drugs or gunshot resid...