Abstract：
:This paper examines complications of sleepwalking disorder (DSM-IV 307.46), an arousal disorder or parasomnia, in relationship to mens rea, or culpable mental state necessary to a finding of criminal responsibility. The legal history of criminal intent and insanity is reviewed. A case of indecent exposure is discussed in a man with a history of closed head injuries and sleepwalking disorder who was found standing naked in the middle of a busy urban thoroughfare in the wee hours of the morning and arrested. On psychiatric evaluation, the defendant was found to have a long-standing sleepwalking disorder. At trial, scientific literature and psychiatric expert testimony concerning sleepwalking disorder was presented. The psychiatrist opined that the defendant was probably sleepwalking at the time of the alleged offense. No rebuttal testimony was offered by the prosecution. The jury found the man not guilty. The author surveys the legal history of sleepwalking disorder and compares this example with others in which uncontrolled behavior during sleep has resulted in harm to the patient or to others. Clinical and forensic implications of the disorder are reviewed. The parasomnias' impact on forensic practice should be systematically studied. Intervention strategies should be refined and implemented.
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J Forensic Scijournal_title
Journal of forensic sciencesauthors
Thomas TNsubject
Has Abstractpub_date
1997-01-01 00:00:00pages
17-24issue
1eissn
0022-1198issn
1556-4029journal_volume
42pub_type
杂志文章,评审abstract：:DNA is often difficult to extract from old bones and teeth due to low levels of DNA and high levels of degradation. This study established a simple yet efficient method for extracting DNA from 20 aged bones and teeth (approximately 60 years old). Based on the concentration and STR typing results, the new method of DNA...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.13603
更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Many studies have been published describing numerous techniques to determine the aging of individuals from dental tissues. However, few case reports demonstrate how such techniques can be employed by the forensic odontologist undertaking casework. Indeed, many of the techniques are highly complex and utilize equipment...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The authors describe three cases (two blacks and one Latin American) of sudden death caused by late complications of Kawasaki disease (mucocutaneous lymph node syndrome). At autopsy each heart contained multiple coronary artery aneurysms with luminal stenosis caused by intimal hyperplasia and thrombi. Although virtual...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1991-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Although the relationship between hyoid bone shape and fracture pattern figures prominently in forensic investigations of strangulation, few quantitative data exist on age and sex differences in hyoid morphology. An image analysis system was used to take a series of 30 measurements on digitized radiographs of 315 hyoi...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Twenty-five permanent teeth, including eight carious ones whose pulp cavities had been exposed, were used for this research 3-5 weeks after extraction. Phosphate-buffered saline (PBS, at pH 7.2) was employed to extract ABO blood group substance from tooth powder. ABO grouping was performed on blood-stained compresses ...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Fatal ingestion of methotrimeprazine is unusual, and while therapeutic drug levels are established as concentrations between 0.02 to 0.14 mg/L, fatal levels are not. The following describes a case of fatal suicidal ingestion of methotrimeprazine in which the measured concentration of methotrimeprazine in the blood was...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1996-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Six multiplex PCR systems using single-base extension reactions to analyze 46 mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA)-coding region single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) that define 42 haplogroups, that is, 24 major mtDNA haplogroups and 18 subclades, were devised. To improve the usefulness of the established systems for the analy...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.12961
更新日期：2016-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.12580
更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01468.x
更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Human gender identification, based on the amelogenin gene, has important applications in forensic casework, prenatal diagnosis, DNA databasing, and blood sample storage. However, we report on the first known case, in the Israeli population, of an amelogenin sex test failure on a phenotypically normal male. He was type...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2012.02132.x
更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1992-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1981-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We report a case of a 58-year-old man who committed suicide using a modern crossbow. The victim shot himself in the chest with a conical field-tip arrow from close proximity. We first presumed that this was a case of homicide committed with a firearm. We were, however, subsequently proved wrong. The reasons for the pr...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2010.01666.x
更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Juvenile age estimation methods used in forensic anthropology generally lack methodological consistency and/or statistical validity. Considering this, a standard approach using nonparametric Multivariate Adaptive Regression Splines (MARS) models were tested to predict age from iliac biometric variables of male and fem...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.13224
更新日期：2017-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A simple method using purge-and-trap gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (P&T-GC/MS) for forensic examination of oil stains was studied. Carboxylic acids, chosen as target components for discrimination of oil samples, were extracted from stains with ether, methyl esterified by tetramethylammonium hydroxide, and analy...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:This is a report on a descriptive study made of defendants charged with at least one count of sexual assault who were examined at the Forensic Psychiatry Clinic of the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the Borough of Manhattan during the calendar year 1974. ...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A male in his 70s was found lying dead in the living room of his house. A gunshot entrance wound was observed in the left orbit, with a lead slug and wadding left in the skull, which exhibited fatal cranio-cerebral trauma. A cartridge had been discharged from a handmade launcher, or zip gun, that had been fixed to a s...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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doi：10.1111/1556-4029.13051
更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:For the past 10 years, medical imaging techniques have been increasingly applied to forensic investigations. To obtain histological and toxicological information, tissue and liquid samples are required. In this article, we describe the development of a low-cost, secure, and reliable approach for a telematic add-on for...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2011.01990.x
更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The aim of this study was to achieve a referral database for dental age estimation of unaccompanied minors of Thai nationality. A total of 1199 orthopantomograms were collected from original Thai women and men equally divided in age categories between 15 and 24 years. On the radiographs, the developmental stage of the...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/j.1556-4029.2008.00961.x
更新日期：2009-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Genetic marker analysis is a powerful tool for solving paternity-related problems when the putative father is missing. This report describes the first time this approach was employed in Chile to solve such a problem. In the case presented, the alleged father was missing as a result of the political detentions that too...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1999-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ethanol concentrations were measured in femoral venous blood in deaths attributed to acute alcohol poisoning (N = 693) or chronic alcoholism (N = 825), according to the forensic pathology report. Among acute alcohol poisonings were 529 men (76%) with mean age 53 years and 164 women (24%) with mean age 53 years. In the...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Two groups of offenders, one charged with sex crimes as well as with crimes of larceny, and the other charged with sex crimes only, are compared with respect to their demographic characteristics and their intelligence and diagnostic classification as determined via psychological testing. ...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The 1970s have yielded many situations in which psychiatrists have been summoned by agents of the state for help in resolving terrorist-related crises. This paper tries to examine the evolving role of forensic psychiatrists as they participate in such situations and reviews some of the functions involved in open commu...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
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更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The investigation of sudden unexpected death in psychiatric patients and the ensuing litigation has brought to our attention many unusual features important in the evaluation of such deaths. Certain pathophysiologic mechanisms of death, rarely encountered in routine forensic science practice, may be important in deter...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
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更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this study, the nondestructive differentiation of individual white polyester clothing fibers was accomplished via synchrotron radiation microbeam X-ray fluorescence (SR-μ-XRF) analysis. SR-μ-XRF with vertical focusing is a useful nondestructive method for the analysis of a single polyester clothing fiber. Kirkpatri...
journal_title：Journal of forensic sciences
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1111/1556-4029.14481
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