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
