Forensic medicine in the next century: some ethical challenges

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The 21st century will present old and new problems to practitioners of forensic medicine. Questions regarding medical testing on prisoners and the use of torture by the state against prisoners around the world must still be resolved. The increasing use of technology to create electronic records of criminal and noncriminal elements, and perhaps genetically manipulate behavior, raises questions of privacy and other ethical concerns. Laws should be passed that confront and resolve ethical dilemmas.

Care and treatment, Ethical aspects, Medical jurisprudence, Forensic medicine, Prisoners

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Forensic DNA profiling in the 21st century

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DNA testing techniques will improve during the 21st century, just as they rapidly improved during the 1990s. Developing technologies include mass spectrometry and microchip capillary electrophoresis. DNA analysis will be less expensive and less time consuming in the 21st century than in the 20th century. The increasing use of DNA records in society raises questions of privacy that will have to be debated and resolved.

Methods, 21st century AD, Privacy, Right of, Right of privacy, DNA testing, DNA identification

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Social disadvantage, mental illness and predictors of legal involvement

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Research on the prevalence of legal involvement among individuals receiving mental health care indicates that the most symptomatically severe individuals are not necessarily at a higher risk of legal involvement. Discussion includes the influence of social disadvantage.

Mentally ill persons, Behavior, Mentally ill, Socially handicapped, Disadvantaged persons, Legal assistance to the handicapped, Disabled legal assistance

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