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Drug‐facilitated crime: A review of findings between 2019 and 2023

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Drug‐facilitated crime (DFC) is a criminal act (e.g., assault, robbery, or sexual assault) in which the perpetrator uses drugs to impair the victim's ability to resist, remember, or recognize the crime being committed. Ethanol is commonly implicated in DFC casework, but limited data are published on other substances currently implicated in ...
Meaghan R. Hessler   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Forensic Pathology and Legal Issues in COVID-19: Case Report and Literature Review. [PDF]

open access: yesCureus
Kingsley-Godwin MJ   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Canadian water‐related fatalities: Demographic, situational, and environmental risk factors

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Unintentional water‐related deaths are an ongoing global problem, despite being named by the United Nations as one of the leading preventable causes of death. To address the need for enhanced analysis of drowning risk factors, including demographic and situational conditions that may influence death outcomes, this research involved a three ...
Vienna Chichi Lam   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Elucidating the etiology of idiopathic spontaneous intraperitoneal hemorrhage

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Free blood within the abdominal cavity (hemoperitoneum) presents a significant diagnostic and interpretive challenge. It may result from trauma or occur spontaneously in association with underlying disease conditions. When no source of fatal hemorrhage is identified, the implications extend across forensic, criminalistic, legal, and ethical ...
Dalibor Kovařík   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Homicide Offender Motive Scale (HOMS): A classification system for homicide motives based on a qualitative systematic review

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract Many types of homicide motives have been described in the scientific literature. However, inconsistencies regarding how these motives are defined and classified may hinder the ability to understand the driving factors behind homicide. Developing a classification system that defines and organizes commonly used motives into superordinate ...
John‐Christopher A. Finley   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indoor cats scavenging behind closed doors

open access: yesJournal of Forensic Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract We report a rare case of postmortem scavenging by cats in Japan involving the skeletonized remains of a woman in her 80s discovered in a locked, garbage‐filled room. The body was missing many bones, including vertebrae other than the atlas with odontoid process.
Mariko Kazuta   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

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