Countertransference is a clinical term introduced by Freud in 1909. For years, despite mounting criticism, forensic psychiatrists borrowed this clinical concept to explain their emotional experiences and responses to examinees' emotions and behavior. The authors describe the impact of examinee and nonexaminee factors during evaluations and beyond, including during trial and while providing fore...

Forensic science has been slow to develop as a recognised field of study. Over the past 30 years, analytical and forensic science have developed together; though the application of new analytical techniques in forensic work is retarded by the necessity of having methods of proven reliability. The many techniques now applied in forensic analysis—microscopy, spectroscopy of all types, x-ray analy...

In a world that is becoming more interconnected, forensic psychiatrists can learn a great deal from the study of comparative forensic psychiatry. Comparative forensic psychiatry is difficult because we are separated not only by different legal systems and forensic concepts but often by language. Comparative forensic psychiatry has the potential not only to inform discussion between forensic psy...

BACKGROUND Forensic odontology nowadays has become a developing science and is of great importance to society. It is important that dental practitioners should have a proper knowledge of forensics as the need has increased greatly over the last decades due to the unprecedented demand from the criminal justice including terrorism in Kashmir valley (J&K India). MATERIALS AND METHODS Data was co...

To resolve the challenges of forensic investigation in virtual networks, we present a new forensic framework called “Virtual Network Forensic Process”. Based on this framework we present the design, implementation and workflow of ForCon d a forensic controller to implement network investigation in OpenFlow controlled networks using Open vSwitch. Current trends bear out that virtualization techn...

Sattar, et al. have made a contribution to our profession generally in the manner of our use of terminology by noting that some phenomena observed in psychotherapy are similar to those in the work of the forensic psychiatrist, such as in the psychiatric evaluation, preparation of testimony, and provision of testimony. In doing so, the authors clarify the definition of the work of the forensic p...

In this paper, we propose an adversary model to facilitate forensic investigations of mobile devices (e.g. Android, iOS and Windows smartphones) that can be readily adapted to the latest mobile device technologies. This is essential given the ongoing and rapidly changing nature of mobile device technologies. An integral principle and significant constraint upon forensic practitioners is that of...

The examination of skeletal remains is a challenge to the medical examiner's/coroner's office and the forensic anthropologist conducting the investigation. One of the objectives of the medico-legal investigation is to estimate stature or height from various skeletal remains and body parts brought for examination. Various skeletal remains and body parts bear a positive and linear correlation wit...

introduction: natural and unexpected death that happens within less than one hour of first symptom occurrence is called sudden death. cardiovascular diseases are the main known reason of sudden death and more than 75% of sudden deaths in athletes are assigned to it. here we reported the autopsy results of all cases with sudden death following exercise that were referred to forensic center of te...

background: the pattern of drug abuse in iran has dramatically changed in recent years, turning from the traditional opioids [opium, opium dross, and refined opium dross (shireh)] into drugs with newer forms. the present study is aimed at investigating the frequency of pathological changes in the lungs of bodies with positive postmortem toxicology results for narcotics and psychotropic substanc...