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NIJ Training Course on Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes: Demonstration on Biological Evidence Packaging

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Agosto 2020
An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes', as outlined in the third learning module, 'Evidence Collection'. This brief demonstration shows how the use paper wrapping to prevent contamination on wet and dried biological evidence.

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NIJ Training Course on Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes: Demonstration of Swabbing Wet Stains on an Absorbent Wood Surface

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Agosto 2020
An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes', as outlined in the third learning module, 'Evidence Collection'. This brief demonstration shows how a blood sample is swabbed from an absorbent wood surface.

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NIJ Training Course on Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes: Demonstration on Blood and Body Fluid Collection into Bindle Paper

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Agosto 2020
An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Collecting DNA Evidence at Property Crime Scenes', as outlined in the third learning module, 'Evidence Collection'. This brief demonstration shows a blood sample being scraped into bindle paper.

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Video of an attorney proffering an analyst as an expert witness

Agosto 2020

0:01 Where are you employed? Illinois State Police. 

0:05 And what is your title? Forensic scientist. 

0:08 What are your primary duties my primary duties  include receiving evidence and screening them  

0:14 or looking for biological stains such as  blood semen or saliva I then perform DNA  

0:19 analyses on these stains and if I'm if it is  requested I testify in court to my findings. 

0:27 How long have you been employed  as a forensic scientist with ISP? 

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NIJ Training Course for Forensic DNA Officers of the Court: Excluded or Non-Matched DNA Samples in a Laboratory Report

Agosto 2020
An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the sixth learning module, 'Understanding a Forensic DNA Lab Report'. This brief animation shows an excluded DNA sample typically found in a forensic lab report and is used as common terminology. 

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NIJ Training Course for Forensic DNA Officers of the Court: Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) Analysis of Maternal Inheritance Patterns

Agosto 2020
An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the eighth learning module, 'Mitochondrial DNA & Y-STR Analysis'. This brief animation shows how mtDNA is passed from a mother to her children and the implications of this inheritance pattern in forensic testing. 

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NIJ Training Course for Forensic DNA Officers of the Court: Uninterpretable DNA Samples in a Laboratory Report

Agosto 2020
An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the sixth learning module, 'Understanding a Forensic DNA Lab Report'. This brief animation shows how inconclusive or uninterpretable results found in an electropherogram lab report can be excluded as the source of DNA evidence. 

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NIJ Training Course for Forensic DNA Officers of the Court: Child Inheritance Pattern in Nuclear DNA

Agosto 2020
An interactive tool used to supplement the NIJ online training course entitled 'Principles of Forensic DNA for Officers of the Court', as outlined in the second learning module, 'Biological Terminology'. This brief animation shows how a child inherits genes from its parents in a nuclear cell and is used as biological DNA terminology. 

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How Prepared Are Schools?

Junio 2020
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Research Spotlight

How prepared are schools for emergencies? Dr. Silva discusses her NIJ-funded research that looked at whether or not federal guidelines were reaching schools; the levels of emergency preparedness at the state, district, and school level; what we can learn from well-prepared schools, both best practices and challenges.

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