Articles Published by NIJ

Researchers create a metric to determine the difficulty of matching latent and known fingerprints, then link that difficulty to error rates.

Identifying a new drug that is very similar in structure to other drugs is important for investigators. Researchers in this project determined that these drugs may be better separated using ultra high-performance supercritical fluid chromatography.

Synthetic cathinones, a class of mood-altering stimulants popular among recreational drug users, can be unstable when stored in blood or urine samples, and may be problematic when used as evidence in court.

Researchers funded by NIJ studied the effects of Florida laws to address the opioid epidemic and found that they did indeed help reduce the number of “pill mill” clinics.

Reviews of 'sentinel events' can shift the emphasis away from blame and toward risk mitigation and continuous improvement.