A high performance liquid chromatographic method with ultra violet detection for simultaneous analysis of six benzodiazepines (BZDs) (chlordiazepoxide, diazepam, clonazepam, midazolam , flurazpam and lorazepam) has been developed for forensic screening of adulterated non-alcoholic drinks. Samples were analyzed after a simple procedure for preparation using pH adjustment and filtering. Isocratic...

in iran, department of forensic psychiatry is one of the special units of legal medicine organization concerned with individuals who demonstrate psychological and psychiatric problems. the duties of forensic psychiatrists in the department are, performing psychiatric examinations and determining mental competence of two major groups of referrals: individuals who are involved in a legal problem ...

Wildlife DNA forensics is an applied field that has emerged from a synthesis of conservation genetic research and forensic genetic practice to meet the increasing need for investigative tools in wildlife law enforcement. This review describes the principal technologies and applications available to wildlife forensic geneticists, focussing on the four most common casework questions: What species...

Forensic computing (FC) is an emerging academic discipline that is difficult to define. This paper attempts to define taxonomy and interrelationships between specific academic and scientific disciplines involved. First, it provides a review of recent forensic computing literature and presents a taxonomy of the emerging field based on the contributions of authors from a number of disciplines inc...

The historical origin of modern forensic psychiatry, as well as the circumstances of its evolution, may be defined and described from several vantage points. In this article I present a critical reading of Richard J. Bonnie's article, published in the Journal, in which he assigned the budding of modern forensic psychiatry to the 20th century. Although I concur with Bonnie's historical analysis,...

Positive train control (PTC) or communication-based control systems (CBTC) control trains using wireless network infrastructures. Consequently, investigations of accidents involving PTCor CBTC-controlled trains require network forensic analysis. This paper describes a forensic analysis framework that leverages the communications capabilities of PTC systems. The framework incorporates a centrali...

In order for trace evidence to have a high evidential value, experimental studies which mimic the forensic reality are of fundamental importance. Such primary level experimentation is crucial to establish a coherent body of theory concerning the generation, transfer and persistence of different forms of trace physical evidence. We contend that the forensic context, at whatever scale, will be sp...

If we consider photo forensics within a Bayesian framework, then the probability that an image has been manipulated given the results of a forensic test can be expressed as a product of a likelihood term (the probability of a forensic test detecting manipulation given that an image was manipulated) and a prior term (the probability that an image was manipulated). Despite the success of many for...

–Digital forensics tools frequently use to calculate the hash value of digital evidence drive. MD5 and SHA hash function is used in digital forensic tools to calculate and verify that a data set has not been altered, due to the application of various evidence collection and analysis tools and procedures. Additionally, due to the impact on the personal life of the subject of an investigation, ve...

Forensic analysis of the Windows NT File System (NTFS) could provide useful information leading towards malware detection and presentation of digital evidence for the court of law. Since NTFS records every event of the system, forensic tools are required to process an enormous amount of information related to user / kernel environment, buffer overflows, trace conditions, network stack, etc. Thi...