Articles Published by NIJ

Making imaging technologies available to forensic pathologists as common practice — although not without challenges — will help improve medicolegal death investigations in the United States.

The ability of Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instruments to detect practically the entire periodic table of elements very quickly and without the complexity of other systems makes them an economic choice for forensic analysis.

Researchers  expanded the National Center for Forensic Science Smokeless Powders Database from 100 to more than 800 entries.

The State and Local Anti-Terrorism Training Program provides training to local law enforcement agencies to detect, prevent, and investigate terrorism. NIJ funded an assessment to identify program strengths and areas of improvement.

Criminals track dust particles to and from virtually every crime scene, but particles on a suspect’s shoes are seldom used as evidence linking the accused to the crime. In this NIJ-supported project, researchers assert that investigators can use small par

Investigating and prosecuting sexual assault crimes is much more complicated than simply performing DNA testing.

Researchers claim they have developed a prototype system that could enable “low-cost, portable, objective analysis of tool marks.”

Child abuse and neglect have been shown to increase the risk of later forms of antisocial behavior, including violence perpetration and crime in adulthood.