Palm prints

Just Science Podcast: Just Identifying Decedents through Postmortem Prints

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Date Published

September 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Success Story: LatentSleuth: A Case Study on the Impact of Federal R&D Funding

Date Published

September 2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Testing the Accuracy and Reliability of Palmar Friction Ridge Comparisons: A Black Box Study

Date Published

May 2020

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Testing the Accuracy and Reliability of Palmar Friction Ridge Comparisons: A Black Box Study

Date Published

2021

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Results of a Black Box Study on the Accuracy and Reliability of Palm Print Comparisons

Event Dates

March 12, 2020, 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Web

Registration Status

Open

Developing a Database of Cursive and Printed Handwriting Characteristics

Date Published

November 2017

Agencies

NIJ

Testing the Accuracy and Reliability of Palmar Friction Ridge Comparisons: A Black Box Study

2017-DN-BX-0170

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2017

$370,454

Development of Individual Handwriting Characteristics in ~1800 Students: Statistical Analysis and Likelihood Ratios That Emerge Over an Extended Period of Time

Date Published

May 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

How Reliable Are Latent Fingerprint Examiners?

Date Published

September 2015

Agencies

NIJ

How Reliable Are Latent Fingerprint Examiners?

September 2015

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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