Coroners
Pathologists’ Assistants in Forensics
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How and When to Deal with the Media: Do's and Don’ts
This training was presented as a part of the National Center on Forensics conference at George Mason University on August 10th, 2023. In this session, Former Chief Medical Examiner of New York Barbara Sampson explores communication skills to utilize as Medical Examiner/Coroner when addressing the media.
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How and When to Deal with the Media: Do's and Don’ts
Postmortem CT Scans Supplement and Replace Full Autopsies
As medical examiner and coroner offices nationwide face a severe shortage of forensic pathologists, New Mexico has pioneered the use of CT scans to reduce autopsy numbers and reduce costs.
MDI Myth: Nobody Cares About or Uses MDI Data
The Impact of Processing and Sampling Procedures on the Integrity of Forensically Relevant Biomolecules in Bones
The Daunting Task of Strengthening Medical Examiner and Coroner Investigations Across Hundreds of Jurisdictions
After a five-year fact-finding mission, a multi-agency working group has identified a host of problems in the U.S. medical examiner/coroner system, but solutions remain elusive.
Coroner Liaison
A Data-Informed Response to Emerging Drugs
The emerging drug crisis in the U.S. touches both criminal justice and public health, and experts from both fields came together at NIJ’s 2023 National Research Conference to discuss strategies and tools to fight this problem. Dr. Frances Scott, NIJ scientist and program manager, continues the conference discussion with two fellow panelists: Ciena Bayard, the Method Development and Validation Program Manager for D.C. Office of the Chief Medical Examiner, and Haley Greene, the Deputy Epidemiologist for the Central Region for the Virginia Department of Health. Read the transcript.
FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence
FIU - Forensic Technology Center of Excellence
Real-Time Sample-Mining and Data-Mining Approaches for the Discovery of Novel Psychoactive Substances (NPS)
Reliability and Validity of Radiographic Comparisons for Positive Identification
Implementing NAGPRA Connecting Medical Examiner and Coroner Offices to Tribal Partners
This project is designed to connect tribal partners to ME/C offices to facilitate successful disposition protocols for non-forensically significant Native American remains that are compliant with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 (NAGPRA).
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Census of Medical Examiner and Coroner (ME/C) Offices (Bureau of Justice Statistics)
Provides data on the personnel, budgets, and workload of medical examiner and coroner offices by type of office and size of jurisdiction. The census gathers information on the number of unidentified human decedents handled by these offices, record-keeping practices, and use of national databases for unidentified remains.
Application for Funding to Support the National Missing and Unidentified Persons System (NamUs)
Expanding Research to Examine the Impacts of Forensic Science on the Criminal Justice System
In 2004, the National Institute of Justice created the social science research on forensic sciences (SSRFS) research program to explore the impact of forensic sciences on the criminal justice system and the administration of justice. Much of the early research from the SSRFS program focused on DNA processing and the use of DNA in investigations and prosecutions.
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