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Standard for Report Content in Forensic Toxicology
Standard for Education, Training, Continuing Education, and Certification of Forensic...
Standard for a Bloodstain Pattern Analyst’s TrainingProgram
Standard for Collection and Preservation of Document Evidence
Standard for Processing Evidence for the Detection of Friction Ridge Impressions
AAFS 2026: Workshop of Interest to Forensic Nurses
Incidents of sudden death during restraint of agitated individuals in Sweden between 1992...
Restraint‐related sudden deaths in agitated individuals raise complex questions at the intersection of medicine and law. Hyperactive delirium with extreme agitation as well as positional asphyxia due to restraint have been proposed to account for these deaths. However, the exact ...
Ethanol depletion dynamics in non‐recirculating system breath alcohol simulators
Breath alcohol simulators are devices that use a heated ethanol/water solution to simulate human breath. Vapor created from heating the solution is commonly used to calibrate alcohol breath testing instruments. When the vapor of the same solution is repeatedly sampled, it causes ...
Standard for Training and Certification of Canine Detection of Human Remains: Human...
Correction to “Determination of erythrocyte degradation levels and estimation of age blood...
Psychological impact of cross‐examination on forensic scientists: A mixed‐methods study of...
This mixed‐methods research examines the emotional and cognitive impact of courtroom testimony when conducted by forensic professionals in Pakistan. In this study, 10 practitioners of different forensic fields were interviewed semi‐structurally, and 120 respondents were used to c...
Evaluating match confidence in automated face recognition via likelihood ratio...
Forensic facial examinations (FFE) primarily relies on manual image examination by trained experts using standardized protocols to identify suspects through detailed comparisons. In contrast, automated facial recognition (AFR) employs machine learning and AI algorithms to generat...
The influence of 13 weeks of burial on morphine and metabolite distribution in human...
When human remains are in an advanced stage of decomposition, drug concentrations are altered. In five decedents morphine, morphine‐3‐glucuronide (M3G), and morphine‐6‐glucuronide (M6G) concentration changes and bacterial DNA were investigated after 13 weeks of burial. Femoral bl...
2026 Community Connections Mosaic Award Recipient Announced
2025-26 FSF Jan S. Bashinski Grant Recipient Announced
The Supreme Court of Canada interprets the fitness to stand trial test in R v. Bharwani
At the core of the common law, rooted in fairness, is the principle that an accused must be "fit" or "competent" to answer charges pursued by the state. Fitness rules vary considerably across jurisdictions but generally share the requirement that the accused b...