2026 June - 23 articles
Background/Objectives: Child sexual abuse (CSA) is a serious public health and forensic issue, associated with significant psychological, psychiatric, and social consequences. However, data from forensic psychiatric evaluations regarding victims of t...
Background and Clinical Significance: Animal hoarding is a recognized form of animal cruelty characterized by the accumulation of animals under conditions of inadequate care, leading to compromised welfare and an increased risk of disease transmissio...
Background: Postmortem redistribution (PMR) is a major challenge in forensic toxicology, particularly when drug concentrations are measured in central blood rather than peripheral blood. Although peripheral blood remains the preferred specimen for po...
Caffeine is the world’s most widely consumed psychoactive compound, yet it presents a growing challenge in forensic toxicology due to the proliferation of highly concentrated energy drinks, dietary supplements, and pure anhydrous powders. This...
Background/Objectives: Accurate age estimation is a critical task in forensic and legal contexts, where reliable and objective assessment is essential for age-dependent decision-making. This study aims to explore the application of convolutional neur...
Background: Accurate sex estimation from skeletal remains is essential in forensic identification, yet population-specific reference data for cervical vertebrae, particularly the first cervical vertebra (C1), are limited. This lack of data compromise...
Background/Objectives: Mass suicide events represent complex socio-cultural phenomena requiring multidisciplinary investigation. The 1978 Jonestown event (>900 deaths) remains the most extensively documented modern case. Methods: We conducted a sy...
Background: Stalking is a well-established and studied crime in the forensic field. Nevertheless, research on the psychological aspects of stalking behaviors remains limited due to the lack of specific assessment tools. This two-phase research projec...
Background and Forensic Significance: Intimate partner violence (IPV) is a major public health concern that can result in intimate partner homicide (IPH). While most reported cases involve female victims, fatal violence against men, particularly olde...
Background/Objectives: The frontal sinus exhibits individual morphological variability that may support human identification. Its development progresses through childhood and adolescence and stabilizes in early adulthood, with age-related changes pot...
Background: Accurate estimation of the pre-colonization interval (pre-CI), defined as the period between body deposition and initial insect oviposition, remains a challenge in postmortem interval estimation in forensic entomology. This study quantifi...
Introduction: During an excavation in 2022 of a mass grave within a cemetery in Castilla-La Mancha containing the remains of executed victims of the Spanish Civil War and Francoist dictatorship, the scientific team discovered a medallion with a name...
Post-traumatic auditory and vestibular complaints are frequent after traumatic brain injury (TBI) and temporal bone trauma. They create particular difficulty in medico-legal practice because the evaluator must distinguish diagnosis, functional impact...
Background/Objective: Forensic document examination (FDE) traditionally relies on subjective expert opinion. This preliminary study was designed to develop and validate a hybrid deep learning model (ResNet-50 + bidirectional long short-term memory [B...
Background/Objectives: Dog tethering remains a common containment practice in several regions despite increasing concerns about its implications for animal welfare. This study aimed to assess veterinary professionals’ perceptions in Portugal ab...
Background/Objectives: Left ventricular free wall rupture is a rare but catastrophic complication of acute myocardial infarction with extremely high mortality. Deaths occurring in water environments present unique forensic challenges requiring system...
Background/Objectives: Bloodstain pattern analysis (BPA) is widely used in crime scene investigation (CSI), yet its practical application, evidential limits, and interpretive role are often discussed in fragmented or technique-focused terms. This sys...
Background/Objectives: Forensic DNA analysis is a key investigative resource in sexual-violence casework, but its recorded use depends on how cases move through clinical, custody, judicial, and laboratory pathways. In Italy, this transition is organi...
Background/Objectives: The goal of this study was to characterize changes in autofluorescence of epithelial cells obtained from saliva stains that occur with time and investigate the potential for these changes to serve as time-since-deposition (TSD)...
Background/Objectives: Sex estimation from craniofacial morphology is a fundamental component of biological profile construction in forensic anthropology. Population-specific reference data for Thai individuals derived from computed tomography (CT) r...
Background: Latent fingerprints are crucial forensic evidence, but their stability can be affected by environmental factors such as direct sunlight. The findings indicate that prolonged sunlight exposure may be associated with reduced fingerprint qua...
Background: Reliable identification remains a cornerstone of forensic investigations, particularly when encountering degraded remains or suboptimal biological evidence. This study evaluates the potential of dentine metabolomics, utilizing proton nucl...
Background/Objectives: The presence of postmortem pink teeth is a phenomenon occasionally observed during forensic autopsies. This phenomenon has been typically associated with deaths involving drowning, asphyxiation, trauma, or electrocution. Howeve...
