Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine

The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine provides a forum for the rapid publication of topical articles on all clinical aspects of forensic medicine and closely 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.

The recent increase in the volume of articles submitted in 2019/20 means the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine has the second highest submission rate in the Elsevier family of forensic journals after Forensic Science International. We are proud that submissions are from a breadth of geographical areas, and although both citations and downloads are increasing the Editor has decreased the time taken to make decisions and get work published online.

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All aspects of the medical principles of care and forensic assessment of individuals 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 within the clinical setting:

Forensic medicine training, forensic medicine national systems
Healthcare in police and prison custody, death in custody and restraint injuries
Death investigation and causes of death
Suicide, para-suicide and deliberate self-harm
Child abuse and neglect
Interpersonal violence, assault and injury, personal injury, elder abuse, domestic violence
Sexual assault
Human rights when involving refugee and asylum medicine
Traffic and transportation medicine
Drug and alcohol misuse, drink and drug driving
Medical law and medical negligence

Volume/Issue Projected Mail Dates

69/C06 Jan 2020

70/C14 Feb 2020

71/C31 Mar 2020

72/C15 May 2020

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 and medical negligence
Mass disaster
Torture
Extra-judicial deaths
Human rights

73/C30 Jun 2020

74/C14 Aug 2020

75/C29 Sep 2020

76/C12 Nov 2020

Meet the Editor-in-Chief

Prof Tim Thompson

Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology, Associate Dean (Academic), School of Health & Life Sciences, Teesside University.

Tim Thompson is Professor of Applied Biological Anthropology and Associate Dean (Academic) in the School of Health & Life Sciences. Tim has published over 70 papers in peer-reviewed journals and books and his latest is ‘Human Remains: Another Dimension – the application of imaging to the study of human remains’. Prior to this, he published the book ‘The Archaeology of Cremation: Burned Human Remains in Funerary Studies’, was co-author of ‘Human Identity and Identification’ with Dr Rebecca Gowland (Durham University) and senior editor for the book ‘Forensic Human Identification’.

Tim served as Editor-in-Chief of the journal ‘Science & Justice’ for three years and is now the E-i-C for the Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Society of Forensic Sciences, the Royal Anthropological Institute, the Royal Society of Biology and is an Honorary Fellow of the Faculty of Forensic & Legal Medicine. In 2014, Tim was awarded a prestigious National Teaching Fellowship by the Higher Education Academy for excellence in teaching and support for learning in higher education and is passionate about education, training and development.

Professor Thompson, can receive your queries via the Elsevier page below or by emailing forensic.medicine@fflm.ac.uk.

Associate Editors

Dr Wilma Duijst, Maastricht, Netherlands

Dr Maria Nittis, Blacktown, Australia

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