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National Center on Forensics

George Mason University and the National Association of Attorneys General presents the National Center on Forensics Continued Training Plan

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Elucidation of the Effect of Solar Light on the Near-Infrared Excitation Raman Spectroscopy-Based Analysis of Fabric Dyes

Date Published

October 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Machine Learning Analysis on Gunshot Recognition

Date Published

May 2024

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Electroanalytical Paper-based Sensors for Infield Detection of Chlorate-based Explosives and Quantification of Oxyanions

Date Published

May 2023

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

The Daunting Task of Strengthening Medical Examiner and Coroner Investigations Across Hundreds of Jurisdictions

Date Published

April 24, 2024

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.

The Fourth Amendment and the Potential Use of Field-Portable Mass Spectrometry Systems in Law Enforcement

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Hydrodynamics of Forward Blood Spattering Caused by a Bullet of General Shape

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Universal Detection of Body Fluid Traces In Situ With Raman Hyperspectroscopy for Forensic Purposes: Evaluation of a New Detection Algorithm (HAMAND) Using Semen Samples

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Rapid Re-identification of Human Samples Using Portable DNA Sequencing

Date Published

2017

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Analytical and Transfer Characteristics of a Fluorescent Detection Spray: Implications for Subvisible and Nanotrace Particle Transfers

Date Published

2018

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Crime Lab Accreditation Initiative

Date Published

January 2024

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Police Crime Lab Accreditation Initiative

A Focused Microjet Droplet Generator for Forensic Bloodstain Applications

Date Published

2019

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Survey of US Residents and Their Usage of Electronic Cigarettes with Drugs Other Than Nicotine

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Ultra-sensitive, rapid detection of dried bloodstains by surface enhanced Raman scattering on Ag substrates

Date Published

2023

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Furthering understanding of forensic units: a detailed examination of Knoxville police department's crime scene unit

Date Published

December 2018

Publication Type

Thesis/Dissertation

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Just Autopsy Results and Crime Scene Reconstruction

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Date Published

November 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

How Important Is It To Consider Target Properties and Hematocrit in Bloodstain Pattern Analysis

Date Published

September 2016

Publication Type

Research (Applied/Empirical), Report (Study/Research), Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Gull (Laridae) Taphonomy at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Maine, USA

15PNIJ-22-GG-04407-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$139,905

Application of Analytical Chemistry to Test the Accuracy of Human Residual Odor Detection by Cadaver Dogs

15PNIJ-22-GG-04412-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$395,516

Expanding and validating microbiome database for estimating the postmortem interval

15PNIJ-22-GG-04402-MUMU

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$834,503

Forensic Fire Death Investigation: Investigating the Effects of Body Mass and Decomposition Sequence on Fire Burn Speed and Patterns and the Development of Performance Standards

15PNIJ-22-GG-04408-SLFO

Open

Funding First Awarded

2022

$1,087,985

Distribution of Anti-Felon Identification Tags

Date Published

September 2010

Publication Type

Report (Study/Research)

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Just Science Podcast: Just a Curious Case of Print Persistence

Date Published

August 2022

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Death Investigation: A Guide for the Scene Investigator

Date Published

November 1999

Series

NIJ Research Report

Publication Type

Guideline

Agencies

NIJ