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Standard for Report Content in Forensic Toxicology
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Combining morphological traits and measurements of the skull for osteological sex...
Forensic anthropologists commonly estimate osteological sex using separate morphological and metric analyses, without integrating both data types into a single classification model. Combining data types into one model has the potential to increase sex classification accuracies fo...
Vicarious trauma among forensic psychologists
Mental health professionals who conduct forensic assessments are often exposed to stressors during evaluations of justice‐involved individuals (e.g., graphic descriptions of violence, crime scene photos), yet little research has examined vicarious trauma among forensic mental hea...
Normalizing discussions of mental health in forensic anthropology
Traditionally, forensic anthropologists worked on secured scenes or in academic labs. Today, practitioners are more involved in casework, working alongside forensic pathologists during autopsies, mass disasters, and interviewing relatives. This expanded role brings practitioners ...
In Memoriam of Dr. Arthur Burns
Examining the influence of lifestyle variables on the accuracy of skeletal age estimation...
This study investigated links between skeletal age estimation error and lifestyle variables to better elucidate sources of interpersonal variability in the rates of skeletal aging. Skeletal age for 180 individuals from the New Mexico Decedent Image Database was estimated by apply...
Creative toolkit of the 1921 Tulsa Graves Investigation field laboratory
The City of Tulsa initiated The 1921 Graves Investigation in 2020 in order to recover and identify African American victims of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre from unmarked graves. The Tulsa Race Massacre occurred in downtown Tulsa over May 31, 1921, to June 1, 1921, as an act of mo...
Death due to diphenhydramine toxicity: A 9‐year review from the Cook County Medical...
Diphenhydramine (DPH) is a widely available first‐generation antihistamine that, in supratherapeutic doses, can cause severe toxicity and even death. While commonly reported in cases of combined drug toxicity, fatalities attributed to DPH toxicity alone are rarely documented in f...