Cognitive bias may affect forensic handwriting examiners. Contextual information management protocols and other procedures can remove or minimize the opportunity for some cognitive biases to arise in handwriting and signature examinations.

Graphical abstract is a sketch incorporating aspects of fire investigations/fire science and human remains, representing a unification between the two fields.

During the manufacturing process, traces are left on fraudulent identity and travel documents which are representative of the modus operandi used by the forger to create the document. These traces can then be extracted and profiled based on their visual, chemical, and digital features to help provide a greater understanding of the criminal environment for document fraud. This can enable the identification of documents that have been produced by the same source, the structures of criminal networks, and the examination of trends in production and distribution of the documents.

This photo from the May 2023 Burned Human Remains Continuing Education (CE) course at Western Carolina University shows the flashover cell engulfed in flames. This was the third CE course to utilize a willed-body donor as part of the curriculum.

(a) Blunt force injury to calotte in fresh bone, fractures indicated by black arrows, (b) same calotte after partial cremation, black arrows indicate the same blunt force fractures, the red arrow indicates the fracture showed in (c) and (d), (c) this is the depth analysis produced by the Keyence VHX-2000 of the fracture pointed to by the red arrow in (b), (d) the curvature model (CCM) generated by Geomagic and used for 3D assessment the fracture shown by the red arrow.