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Five Things Law Enforcement Executives Can Do To Make a Difference

Date Published

March 2013

Publication Type

Technical Assistance, Instructional Material

Agencies

NIJ

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

Date Published

January 2000

Publication Type

Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

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

Date Published

April 2000

Publication Type

Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

National Law Enforcement Summit on DNA Technology Proceedings: July 27 - 28, 2000

Date Published

July 2000

Publication Type

Conference Material

Agencies

NIJ

Wrongful Convictions: Causes, Prevention, Impact and Outlook for Corrections

Date Published

December 2013

Publication Type

Legislation/Policy Analysis

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

National Institute of Justice Annual Report 2010

Date Published

January 2010

Publication Type

Report (Annual/Periodic)

Agencies

NIJ

Tracking Movements With Isotopes

NIJ Directors, 1969–Present

NIJ was created in 1969 and has been in the forefront of nearly every innovation in criminal justice research and policy ever since. The following Director's have led the Institute in that work. Select a director to view a list of their speeches, remarks, and testimony.

• Jennifer Scherer, Acting January 2025 - Present
• Nancy La Vigne, May 2022-January 2025
• Jennifer Scherer, Acting 2021-May 2022
• David...

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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Fighting Crime With Science

Date Published

November 2015

Series

NIJ Journal

Agencies

NIJ

Fighting Crime With Science

Landscape Study of DNA Mixture Interpretation Software

Date Published

July 2015

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

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

Date Published

October 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Low-Template DNA Mixture Interpretation: Determining the Number of Contributors

Date Published

August 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Highly efficient sperm cell separation from sexual assault samples for DNA analysis using novel polymer filter technology

2015-DN-BX-K072

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$348,796

FY2015 DNA Arrestee Collection Process Implementation Grants Program - Arkansas State Crime Laboratory

2015-DN-BX-K074

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$338,322

Michigan State Police DNA Arrestee Collection Project

2015-DN-BX-K075

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$338,134

Familial DNA Database Search System: Hardware/Software Integration

Event Dates

September 16, 2015, 12:00 pm – 2:00 pm

Location

Online

Event Type

Webinar

Registration Status

Open

FY14 DNA Backlog Reduction Program Abstracts

Date Published

September 2015

Publication Type

Report (Summary), Program/Project Description, Grants and Funding

Agencies

NIJ

Defining a Face: What Can DNA Phenotyping Really Tell Us About An Unknown Sample?

FY15 - Forensic DNA Backlog Reduction Program - Indianapolis-Marion County Forensic Services Agency

2015-DN-BX-0059

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$595,727

An Investigation into the genetic basis of human facial morphology and its prediction from DNA, using a globally distributed panel of individuals from the US and Europe.

2015-R2-CX-0023

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$37,788

2015 Postconviction DNA Testing Program

2015-DY-BX-K001

Closed

Funding First Awarded

2015

$565,639

Tools for Improving the Quality of Aged, Degraded, Damaged, or Otherwise Compromised DNA Evidence, 2014

Date Published

August 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored

Resolution of DNA Mixtures and Analysis of Degraded DNA Using the 454 DNA Sequencing Technology

Date Published

August 2014

Publication Type

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

Agencies

NIJ-Sponsored