Forensic DNA Laboratory Program
Date Published
1998
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Combined DNA Index System (CODIS)
STRBase: A Short Random Repeat DNA Database for the Human Identity Testing Community
Date Published
2001
Publication Type
Program/Project Description
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
New Mexico: Forensic DNA Laboratory Improvement Program; Final Report
Date Published
1998
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
New York Convicted Offender DNA Backlog Reduction Program
Date Published
2005
Publication Type
Statistics
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
TECHBeat, June 2019
Date Published
June 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Program/Project Description,
Instructional Material (Programmed)
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Investigative Genetic Genealogy: Background and Crime Lab Strategy
Event Dates
–
Location
Online
Event Type
Webinar
Registration Status
Open
Beyond DNA - The Role of Physical Evidence in Sexual Assault Investigations
Date Published
January 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Instructional Material
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Beyond DNA - The Role of Biological Evidence in Sexual Assault Investigations
Date Published
January 2019
Publication Type
Report (Technical Assistance),
Report (Grant Sponsored),
Instructional Material
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Notes From the Field: Expanding the DNA Database to Solve Cold Cases
Date Published
November 2019
Agencies
NIJ
Population Data on the Expanded CODIS Core STR Loci for Eleven Populations of Significance for Forensic DNA Analyses in the United States
Date Published
November 2016
Agencies
NIJ-Sponsored
Supporting States to Test Sexual Assault Evidence
April 2018
Crime laboratory and law enforcement personnel from three states discuss the value the NIJ-FBI Sexual Assault Kit Partnership to test sexual assault evidence and obtain investigatory leads.
During this partnership, NIJ is working with the FBI Laboratory in Quantico, Virginia, to test eligible kits from law enforcement agencies and laboratories across the country and develop best practices that can improve the quality and speed of sexual assault kit processing.
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Strengthening Our Nation's Crime Laboratories
April 2018
As technology improves, demand for analysis of DNA and other forensic evidence to help solve crimes grows. This video describes some of the challenges crime laboratories face in meeting this demand and how National Institute of Justice (NIJ) funding has strengthened crime labs and encouraged innovation in forensic techniques.
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Searching for the Missing in a City of Millions
Date Published
May 2019
Series
Publication Type
Technical Assistance,
Program/Project Description,
Issue Overview,
Historical Overview
Agencies
NIJ
Opening the Black Box of NIBIN
July 2014
Series
Bill King discusses the operations of the National Integrated Ballistic Information Network (NIBIN), a program through which firearms examiners at state and local crime laboratories compare tool marks on fired bullets or cartridges found at a crime scene to digitized images of ballistic evidence in a nationwide database.
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Sexual Assault: Obtaining DNA From Evidence Collected up to a Week Later
June 2009
Technological advances have made it possible to detect male DNA in evidentiary samples collected several days after a sexual act has taken place. Panelists will present the research that has led to these findings, followed by a discussion of the potential impact of this work from the perspectives of the sexual assault nurse examiner (SANE) and the crime laboratory communities.
The Importance and Impact of Cold Case Units
July 2019
Practitioners from across the criminal justice system speak to the importance of cold case units and the impact they can have.
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"Sentinel Event" Review in the Criminal Justice System
January 2014
Listen to James Doyle discuss the basics of a "sentinel event" review in the criminal justice system. This learning-from-error approach borrows from principles that medicine, aviation and other high-risk enterprises have successfully used. Former NIJ Fellow Doyle offers the basics to understand this innovative idea that takes a system-wide perspective of error, bringing all stakeholders together in a non-blaming, forward-looking way after a bad outcome, such as a wrongful conviction, occurs.