This paper will discuss how a forensic comparison tool can effectively assist in a forensic investigation of the metadata and data of a database installation, and an approach to handle the output of the forensic comparison tool in a forensic investigation. The metadata of a psql DBMS installation was compromised to support this statement. The relational database management system was divided in...

Forensic evaluation of psychological injury involves the use of a multimethod approximation i.e., a psychometric instrument, normally the MMPI-2, and a clinical interview. In terms of the clinical interview, the traditional clinical interview (e.g., SCID) is not valid for forensic settings as it does not fulfil the triple objective of forensic evaluation: diagnosis of psychological injury in te...

Mass graves are complex products of large-scale crimes. Such scenes pose four conceptual challenges to investigators and forensic experts: the individual victim, the crime, the setting, and the statistical. Exhumation and post-mortem examination of mortal remains with associated personal and forensic evidence require integrated management of core forensic personnel including investigators, arch...

Forensic and pharmaceutical study of the illegal circulation falsified (counterfeit, surrogate, counterfeit, modified) alcoholic beverages was conducted within framework interdisciplinary organizational legal, criminal forensic, clinical pharmacological, forensic medical research. It substantiated that harms country's budget, lives health citizens. Summarized reports State Tax Service Ukraine. ...

background : forensic odontology is that branch of dentistry which plays a vital role with regard to anthropological studies and human identification. in the cases of mass disasters or cases where only the skeletal remains are found, bones and teeth will be the only source of information for the identification of the dead.  any aberrations or any variations from the normality become a distincti...

Two of a number of hypotheses loosely referred to as the CSI Effect suggest that the television program and its spin-offs, which wildly exaggerate and glorify forensic science, affect the public, and in turn affect trials either by (a) burdening the prosecution by creating greater expectations about forensic science than can be delivered or (b) burdening the defense by creating exaggerated fait...

1. Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital R. Poincaré, Paris, France 2. Department of Pathology, University Hospital, Parakou, Benin 3. Department of Forensic Medicine and Pathology, University Hospital R. Poincaré Garches, France 4. Laboratory of Medical Ethics and Forensic Medicine, University of Paris, Paris, France African Health Sciences 2012; (4): 443 445 http:...

This paper discusses the application of automatic speaker verification systems in forensic casework. A framework for reporting the system outcome is proposed. Specific system requirements to properly cope with forensic idiosyncrasies are analyzed through a series of simulations. Results suggest that the design of a forensic speaker verification system not necessarily match the settings of curre...

Aims Micro-CT scanning technology has been increasingly used in various fields of forensic science, however rarely in forensic dentistry. Forensic dentists are regularly confronted with incidents involving high temperatures (e.g. airplane crashes, natural disasters, house fires) and therefore information gained from experimental research can provide useful information for estimating temperature...