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NIJ's Sentinel Events Initiative explores how a culture-changing review of errors could improve the criminal justice system.
Three NIJ-funded studies can help community stakeholders better understand the complex relationship between foreclosures and crime levels in neighborhoods.
NIJ research and development projects hold promise for significantly improving forensic science disciplines.
On behalf of the Office for Investigative and Forensic Sciences at the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), I wish to thank the National...
Brian Cerchiai discusses a NIJ-supported a study conducted by the Miami-Dade Police Department on the accuracy of fingerprint examiners. The study found that fingerprint examiners make extremely few errors. Even when examiners did not get an independent second opinion about their decisions, they were remarkably accurate. But when decisions were verified by an independent reviewers, examiners had a 0% false positive, or incorrect identification, rate and a 3% false negative, or missed identification, rate.
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