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The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine provides a forum for the rapid publication of topical
articles on legal medicine and all clinical aspects of forensic medicine ... click here for full Aims & Scope
The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine is part of Elsevier's forensic package. For more information, go to: http://www.elsevier.com/locate/forensics
The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine provides a forum for the rapid publication of topical
articles on legal medicine and all clinical aspects of forensic medicine and related specialities. The Journal carries definitive reviews,
original communications, hypotheses, learning points of important issues, offering critical analysis and scientific appraisal. All submissions
are peer-reviewed by at least two independent reviewers, and the Journal is listed in MEDLINE/Index Medicus.
All aspects of legal
medicine, the coronial system and the medical principles of care and forensic assessment of living individuals, whether adult or child,
in contact with the judicial system are examined and the Journal has a broad international perspective.
Topics covered in the
journal include, but are not necessarily limited to, the following, particularly with relevance to the clinical setting:
- forensic
medicine
- forensic pathology
- forensic science
- forensic toxicology
- forensic odontology
- forensic
anthropology
- forensic psychiatry
- forensic genetics
- death and care in custody
- training, forensic nursing
- occupational health of police, fitness to interview
- death investigation and causes of death
- forensic medicine national
systems
- human identification
- entomology and palynology
- taphonomy
- mental health
- criminology,
profiling
- child abuse and neglect
- interpersonal violence, assault and injury, personal injury, elder abuse, domestic
violence
- sexual assault
- suicide, parasuicide and deliberate self-harm
- restraint injuries
- drug and
alcohol misuse
- drink and drug driving
- traffic medicine, transportation medicine, refugee and asylum medicine
- medical
law, medical ethics
- euthanasia and end of life issues
- consent
- confidentiality
- clinical negligence
- professional regulation
- patients'complaints procedures
- medical disciplinary procedures
- the coronial system
- clinical governance
- clinical risk management
- clinical performance review procedures
- criminal charges arising
from clinical practice such as murder, manslaughter and indecent assault
- the sick doctor
- the validation, licensing
and certification of doctors
- mass disaster, war graves
- torture
- extra-judicial deaths
- human rights
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Editor-in-Chief:
J. Jason Payne-James
Official journal of The
Faculty of Legal and Forensic Medicine, The
Australian College of Legal Medicine and the
British Association in Forensic Medicine.
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