The Journal of Forensic and Legal Medicine provides a forum for the rapid publication of topical articles on the clinical aspects of forensic medical work. The journal carries definitive reviews of important issues, offering critical analysis and scientific appraisal.

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, particulary within the clinical setting:

• Forensic medicine training, forensic medicine national systems
• Occupational health of police, fitness to interview
• Healthcare in police and prison custody, death in custody
• Forensic science, psychiatry, toxicology, odontology, anthropology
• Death investigation and causes of death
• Human identification
• Mental health
• Criminology
• 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