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Development of Advanced Raman Spectroscopy Methods and Databases for the Evaluation of Trace Evidence and the Examination of Questioned Documents-Phase II

NCJ Number

242324

Date Published

May 2013

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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NIJ's Innovative Research Spans Variety of Forensic Fields

NCJ Number

241928

Journal

National Institute of Justice Journal

Date Published

July 2013

Agencies

NIJ

Series

NIJ Journal

Publication Type

Report (Grant Sponsored), Program/Project Description

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National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 8, Hotel Madison, Mount Vernon A + B Washington, DC January 16 - 17, 2000

NCJ Number

241603

Date Published

January 2000

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Conference Material

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Significance of Elemental Analysis from Trace Evidence

NCJ Number

242325

Date Published

October 2012

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

PDF

National Commission on the Future of DNA Evidence Proceedings Meeting 9: Regal Knickerbocker Hotel Chicago, Illinois, April 9 - 10, 2000

NCJ Number

241602

Date Published

April 2000

Agencies

NIJ

Publication Type

Conference Material

PDF

A Sexual Assault Kit Partnership

November 2015

NIJ Office of Investigative and Forensic Sciences Director Gerald LaPorte and Deputy Director Heather Waltke, along with Heather LaSalle, Forensic Examiner, DNA Casework Unit, and Tina Delgado, Chief, Biometrics Division from the FBI Laboratory discuss why the NIJ-FBI Sexual Assault Kit Partnership was created and how the partnership plans to shed light on the complexities of sexual assault cases, particularly kits that

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Development of a SNP Assay Panel for Ancestral Origin Inference and Individuals Somatic Traits

NCJ Number

249206

Date Published

October 2014

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Publication Type

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

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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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