background: to determine the role of drugs in fatal overdose, analyses were done on samples obtained from autopsy examination and death and crime scene investigations. the aim of this study was to evaluate the usefulness of toxicology analyses of postmortem biological and non-biological samples belonging to a subject in determining the forensic cause of death. methods: toxicological analysis we...

This paper introduces a new systematic process for describing digital investigations that focuses on forensic goals and anti-forensic obstacles and their operationalisation in terms of human and software actions. The main contribution of the paper is to demonstrate how this process can be used to capture the various forensic and anti-forensic aspects of a real world case study involving documen...

Recent progresses in genomic technologies provide both opportunities and challenges to forensics.

Forensics (forensic--before the Forum) means the application of knowledge from different scientific fields in order to define facts in judicial and/or administrative procedures. Nowadays forensics, besides this, finds its application even in different economic processes. For example, forensics enters the commercial areas of business intelligence and of different security areas. The European Com...

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