Articles Published by NIJ

Research-based information that can help inform policy decisions and improve understanding of the criminal justice system.

In response to the National Academy of Sciences’ call for scientific data to support forensic evidence, researchers revised forensic anthropology procedures to include an “error metric” for the measurement of human skeletal remains.

Researchers look into the utility of postmortem X-ray computed tomography in supplanting or supplementing medicolegal autopsies.

NIJ-funded research is helping to strengthen the foundations of forensic science.