In 1982, the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law (AAPL) was a growing and ambitious professional organization. Its membership was a small but vigorous group united by the desire to develop the emerging psychiatric subspecialty of forensic psychiatry within the larger context of psychiatry. The organization was 13 years old. It was devoted to the goal of uplifting the practice of forensic...

a study on the demestic violence in women with addicted and non-addicted husbands reffered to forensic center of urmia, iran     aghakhani n [1] ,mosavi e [2] ,eftekhari a [3] ,eghtedar s [4] ,zareei a [5] ,mesgarzadeh m [6] ,rahbar n [7] , nikoonajaz ar [8] *     received: 8 oct , 2013 accepted: 20 nov , 2013   abstract   background & aims: violence against women is a phenomenon in which women...

1Department of Forensic Medicine, Medicine Faculty of Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey; 2School of Health, Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey; 3Departments of 3Orthopedics and Traumatology, 6Radiology, Medicine Faculty of Süleyman Demirel University, Isparta, Turkey; 4Department of Orthopedics and Traumatology, Medicine Faculty of Dokuz Eylül University, İzmir, Turkey; 5Th...

The death of Professor-Emeritus John Glaister took place on 4 October 1971. He occupied the regius chair of forensic medicine at Glasgow University for thirty-one years. Like his father who held the same chair before him, Professor Glaister was a distinguished figure in the field of forensic medicine, especially in Scotland. But it was an English murder that made him well known to the public at...

Digital forensics seeks to achieve the successful investigation of digital crimes through obtaining acceptable evidence from digital devices that can be presented in a court of law. Thus, the digital forensics investigation is normally performed through a number of phases in order to achieve the required level of accuracy in the investigation processes. Since 1984 there have been a number of mo...