Articles Published by NIJ

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

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

A review of erroneous convictions that involved forensic science can help identify critical lessons for forensic scientists as they perform testing, interpret results, render conclusions, and testify in court.

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.

With support from the National Institute of Justice, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department and the state of Nevada teamed up to reduce the backlog of untested sexual assault kits.

The standard method for collecting and storing blood samples from newborns might be useful for forensic toxicology.

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

Researchers look at transition metal cluster compounds for the fluorescent identification and trace detection of substances of abuse.