The dominant conception of forensic science as a patchwork of disciplines primarily assisting the criminal justice system (i.e. forensics) is in crisis or at least shows a series of anomalies and serious limitations. In recent years, symptoms of the crisis have been discussed in a number of reports by various commentators, without a doubt epitomized by the 2009 report by the US National Academi...

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:...

Forensic anthropology is affected by the unavoidable limits concerning difficulties in standardization of methods and procedures; age estimation is one of the main tasks of forensic anthropology and odontology, both on the dead and the living: literature has shown several methods of age estimation, and although they may be thought of as equivalent, every procedure has its limits, mean error, pr...

www.cmj.hr Aim To describe and assess the scientific and technical aspects of animal forensic testing at the University of California, Davis. The findings and recommendations contained in this report are designed to assess the past, evaluate the present, and recommend reforms that will assist the animal forensic science community in providing the best possible services that comply with court st...

Author details Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center for Forensic Hair Analytics, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Zurich Institute of Forensic Medicine, Center for Forensic Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Institute of Veterinary Pharmacology and Toxicology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland. Clinic of Veterinary Surgery, Departm...

____________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ 1. (Corresponding author) MD, FACMT, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran. [email protected] 2. MD, Associate Professor, Department of Forensic Medicine and Toxicology, Ardabil Universit...

The use of telepsychiatry technology and services has gained attention among legal and clinical practitioners. In the current article, telepsychiatry is defined, and an innovative model of telepsychiatry care delivery that is in use in a child and adolescent forensic evaluation clinic is examined. Critical factors specific to forensics services are examined, as are those specific to telepsychia...

We demonstrate a novel image forensics tool for copy-move detection and localization. The proposed method can determine if such tampering has occurred and which image patches are involved, and it also recovers which geometric transformation was used to perform cloning.